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Two including PK Halder’s associate remanded in graft case
DHAKA, Jan 21, 2021 (BSS) – A Dhaka court today placed former managing director of NRB Global Bank and Reliance Finance Proshanta Kumar Halder alias PK Halder’s associate Sukumar Mridha and his daughter Anindita Mridha on a three-day remand in a case lodged over amassing illegal wealth and laundering money abroad.
Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge KM Imrul Qayesh passed the order as the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) produced the father-daughter duo before the court and pleaded to place them on three-day remand.
The anti-graft body summoned them to their Segunbagicha headquarters in the morning for quizzing and showed them arrested in the case at noon as they found valuable information from them.
The High Court earlier imposed a travel ban on 25 people related to PK Halder and Sukumar and his daughter Anindita were also in that list. Later the ACC seized bank accounts of 62 people including these two accused.
The anti-graft body on January 8, 2020, filed a case against Halder for amassing illegal wealth of around Taka 274 crore. He is accused of embezzling Taka 1500 crore from the International Leasing and Financial Services Ltd. Halder has allegedly embezzled Taka 3,500 crore from different financial agencies.
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