Court Correspondent :
A Dhaka court yesterday placed two close associates of PK Halder on a five-day remand each in a Tk 70.82 crore money laundering case.
The accused people are- Uzzal Kumar Nandi, former Chairman of People’s Leasing and Financial Services Limited (PLFS) and Rashedul Haque, former Managing Director of International Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFSL).
Judge KM Emrul Kayesh of the Senior Special Judge’s Court of Dhaka passed the order after Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Deputy Director Gulshan Anwar Pradhan, and also the Investigation Officer of the case, produced them before the court with a five-day remand prayer. ACC official Gulshan interrogated them at the ACC office on Sunday afternoon and then they were kept at Ramna Model Police Station, out of fear that they might leave the country for their alleged involvement in the scam.
Earlier on the day, the ACC filed a case against 24 people including the two with its Integrated District Office-1 of Dhaka. PK Halder is the prime accused in the case.
According to the prosecution, it was alleged that Uzzal, one of the directors of the fake company “Anan Chemical Limited” and Rashedul in collusion with PK Halder and others took Tk 70.82 crore as loan and laundered the money.
According to ACC sources, Rashedul and Uzzal were named in the case as close associates of PK Halder, who laundered huge amount of money abroad with their help.
