Court Correspondent :
The Special Judge Court-10 of Dhaka on Thursday framed charges against former Managing Director of NRB Global Bank Proshanta Kumar Halder, known as PK Halder, and 13 others in a case filed over laundering Tk 80 crore to Canada and amassing about Tk 426 crore illegally.
Sukumar Mridha, his daughter Anindita Mridha, Abantika Baral, Shankha Bepari, now in the jail, pleaded not guilty and demanded justice after Judge Mohammad Nazrul Islam of the court read out the charges to them.
Earlier in the day, the court dismissed the petitions submitted for discharging the four from the charges of the case. The rejected bail petitions of Sukumar and Anindita after their lawyers moved it.
PK Halder and nine others were shown “fugitives” in the charge sheet and charges were framed against them in their absence. The court issued arrest warrants against PK Hakder and nine others and fixed September 22 to start trial of the case.
This is the first ever case that charge was framed against PK Halder who is an accused in about 20 cases, ACC Public Prosecutor Mir Ahmed Ali Salam told the media.
The nine others, who face arrest warrants are PK Halder’s mother Lilabati Halder, his brother Pritish Kumar Halder, Purnima Rani Halder, Amitav Adhikari, Rajib Som, Subrata Das, Ananga Mohon Roy, Uttam Kumar Mistri and Swapan Kumar Mistri.
Among the accused, Sukumar, Shankha and Anindita made confessions in different Magistrate courts on different dates.
On May 14 this year, PK Halder was arrested in Ashoknagar of India’s West Bengal.
