Court Correspondent :
The Senior Special Judge’s Court of Dhaka on Tuesday placed Ashim Kumar Mistry, nephew of PK Halder’s lawyer Sukumar Mridha, on a three-day remand in a case filed on the charge of amassing and laundering Tk 20.7 crore.
Judge KM Emrul Kayesh of the court passed the order after Md Salahuddin, a Deputy Director of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and Investigation Officer (IO) of the case, produced him with a three-day remand plea. The remand prayer says that Sukumar sent a huge amount of money, earned from different illegal means, to Ashim who lives in Pirojpur. With that money, Ashim bought over 3,000 decimals of land at different places in Pirojpur’s Nazirpur area. For that, Ashim needs to be remanded to find out more information, the IO added. However, no lawyer stood in the court on his behalf.
After the hearing, the judge ordered Ashim to be taken to Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj. Earlier on Monday, a team of ACC led by Md Salauddin arrested Ashim from Segunbagicha area after a case was filed against him and four others with its Integrated District Office-1 of Dhaka.
Proshanta Kumar Halder alias PK Halder is the principal accused in the case. PK Halder is the former Managing Director of NRB Global Bank and Reliance Finance.
According to Canadian media reports, PK Halder is now in Toronto. He is a director of P&L Hal Holding Inc, a Canadian Corporation.
