Staff Reporter :
Prashanta Kumar Halder, better known as PK Halder, will be tried in Bangladesh as well as in India on the charge of his involvement in money laundering, said Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Commissioner Mozammel Haque Khan.
Many of his arrested accomplices had reportedly given confessional statements against him, the ACC official said while attending an event in Madaripur on Friday.
On the same day, a Calcutta court on Friday ordered to take PK Halder and five others in custody. The accused will be produced in the court again on June 7.
The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) lawyer Arijit Chakrobarty said that 14 days custody in jail was prayed. At the same time, request has been made to allow their interrogation in the jail.
On the other hand, PK Haldar’s lawyers Haider Ali and Somnath Ghosh told the court that the accused had been in ED remand for the last 14 days.
Arijit Chakraborty told the court that it was not an easy task. This money belongs to Bangladesh..
As many as 35 cases have been filed against PK Halder, former Managing Director of NRB Global Bank and Reliance Finance, and his associates.
“If we could bring PK Halder back to Bangladesh and interrogate him, we would be able to glean further information about his involvements,” he added.
The ACC commissioner said the main task of the ACC was to take a stand against corruption, and that it was working relentlessly to bring back PK Halder and recover the money laundered by him.
PK Halder was arrested by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED), under the Ministry of Finance of India, in West Bengal on May 13. He was believed to have fled to Canada after the ACC began probing into his illegal activities related to casino business in 2019.
But he had reportedly been practicing falsehood in India since March 2021.
