10 thousand crore taka ($1.18 billion) was looted from 4 financial institutions

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10 thousand crore taka ($1.18 billion) was looted from 4 financial institutions

27 Sep, 2020


Prashanta Kumar Haldar and his cronies have removed at least Tk 10,200 crore from four financial institutions. These funds are transferred against the institution on paper in the name of loan through manipulation. This misdeed has taken place with the help of 25-30 people including some of the organizations. The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has already questioned 19 of them. Besides, bank accounts of 83 people, including PK Haldar, have been seized so far on charges of being directly and indirectly involved in these scams.
This information has come up in a report of the Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) of Bangladesh Bank sent to the ACC. The four companies from which the money has been withdrawn are: Rs 2,500 crore from International Leasing and Financial Services Limited, Rs 3,000 crore from People's Leasing and Financial Services Limited, and Rs 2,500 crore from FAS Finance and Investment Limited (FA). Tk 1,200 crore and Tk 2,500 crore were removed from Reliance Finance Limited.
The ACC is investigating allegations of embezzlement and smuggling out of the country in the name of loans against Prashant Kumar Haldar and others involved. ACC Deputy Director Gulshan Anwar Pradhan is in charge of this.
According to sources, Prashanta Kumar Haldar started transferring money from financial institutions to paper companies in the name of loans in 2009 through manipulation while he was the MD of Reliance. Indirectly, Prashanta Kumar Haldar controlled the four companies. In 2014,Prashanta Kumar Haldar was the MD of NRB Global. Rashidul Haque, who was then the DMD of the company, later became the MD of International Leasing. During the ACC interrogation, Rashidul Haque gave some important information about money laundering and smuggling from those four institutions.

Sources further said that a large portion of the said money was smuggled to several countries including Canada and Singapore. Work is underway to determine the amount of money being smuggled. It is estimated that more than a thousand crores of rupees have been smuggled. He invested the rest of the money illegally in the name of anonymous organizations, paper and fake organizations and relatives.


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Luxury life abroad with looted money from bangladesh - Prashanta Kumar Haldar's house and market in Canada

27 Oct, 2020

Prashant Kumar Haldar (PK Haldar), a moneylender from a leasing company, is living a luxurious life in Toronto, Canada. There he opened houses, cars and businesses with the smuggled money. From that country he occasionally came to Dubai and India.
Now he is staying in one of the two countries. Preliminary investigations by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and the Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) of Bangladesh Bank have found this disturbing information.
With the help of a syndicate including relatives and friends, PK Haldar withdrew at least Tk 10,200 crore from several leasing companies. A large part of this money was smuggled to Canada, India and Singapore.
He was scheduled to return to his country on October 25. But as soon as he returned to the country, he backed down after receiving news of an order from the High Court to arrest him. He did not come back because of fever and cold.
The ACC has filed a case against him for illegal assets worth around Rs 150 crore in the Casono case. The investigation of that case is now at the final stage. He is a fugitive accused in the case. The ACC also wants the cooperation of Interpol in arresting him at this stage. The agency will make a request to the Inspector General of Police (IGP). ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan confirmed the matter to Jugantar on Sunday.
Concerned people said that PK Haldar was supposed to surrender in court for arrest or bail when he came to the country as per normal rules. In the meantime, he said in writing that he would come to the country voluntarily and try to return and rescue the money of the investment sector. But after moving away from that position, the ACC wants to end the ongoing investigation against him. In addition to Interpol's assistance in bringing him back, MLAs are being sent to three countries to bring back his smuggled money.
Asked about this, ACC chairman Iqbal Mahmud told Jugantar that the investigation against PK Haldar was going on at a normal pace. It will continue to run. Whatever is to be done as part of it, the officials will do it. He also said that necessary steps have been taken to bring back the money smuggled out of the country.
Investigators said it was not possible to bring PK Haldar under the law as he had secretly left the country. The investigation also revealed that he used a computer to set up a paper company and used it to extract thousands of crores of rupees from financial institutions overnight. So far, they have received information that at least four thousand crore rupees have been smuggled.
Meanwhile, important information has been obtained from a letter related to PK Haldar regarding corruption and irregularities in the financial sector. Ujjwal Kumar Nandi, the then chairman of People's Leasing (2015-16), mentioned in a letter to the deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank that he reviewed the company's financial statements after taking over as chairman and found a deficit of Tk 945.40 crore in liabilities and assets. The previous financial statements showed an artificial increase in the amount of liabilities and assets.
That is why there is a huge deficit, he added in the letter. He said the former entrepreneurial directors of the company illegally borrowed Tk 256 crore and borrowed Tk 236 crore from the share portfolio. These are mismanagement. However, the ACC is also investigating Ujjwal Kumar Nandi along with PK Haldar. The ACC team also questioned him.
Meanwhile, according to Bangladesh Bank sources, about Tk 2,500 crore was removed from international leasing. In addition, PK Haldar and his syndicate embezzled another Tk 8,500 crore in the same manner from FAS Finance, Reliance Finance and People's Leasing.
Out of a total of Tk 10,000 crore, about Tk 2,200 crore from FAS Finance, Tk 2,500 crore from Reliance Finance and about Tk 3,000 crore from People's Leasing have been embezzled and smuggled in the name of non-existent institutions. It goes without saying that there is no mortgage against these loans. As a result, the chances of repaying the loan are slim. And its main artisan is PK Haldar.
The investigation has identified at least 25 members of PK Haldar's syndicate. Those who have taken loans in the name of various organizations and embezzled them are in the current situation. AKM Shahid Raza, Director, Mercantile Bank Ltd., a friend of PK Haldar, owns Rs. 104 crore in five interest-bearing companies; In one of the 33 checks, Tk 84 crore was withdrawn from an account operated by Irfan Ahmed Khan, former managing director of One Bank Limited's Station Road branch, in the name of JK Trade International.

On the other hand, Purnima Rani Haldar, Swapan Kumar Mistry and Sanjeev Kumar Haldar, relatives of Pik, embezzled Tk 60 crore as working capital. Paramount Agro Limited, owned by Alok Kumar Das, Anita Das and their son Rangan Das opened 9 FDRs on 9 February 2016 by withdrawing Tk 14 crore through 9 checks and opening 8 principal FDRs at the principal branch of Meghna Bank.

The ACC received information that PK Haldar had personally deposited and withdrawn Tk 159.75 crore, which is not a normal transaction for a banker. Addresses of two locations have been used in the case of 14 borrower institutions in his interest. One of them is 58, Purana Paltan Lane, Dhaka. But there is a paper institution at this address. In the name of corruption, fraud and various other irregularities in the name of the loan in favor of the loan by layering in various banks, financial institutions and capital markets, money is embezzled.

He took out crores of rupees in the name of loans at different times in the name of his relatives. Out of this, Atashi Mridha, Uttam Kumar Mistry and Swapan Kumar Mistry, the chairman of Kolasin Limited, have a capital of Tk. Is removed from. Thus, step by step, the money was removed from the leasing company by various rules and regulations in the name of 25 members of his syndicate. Meanwhile, ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan said that PK Haldar is the guru of all their plays. He will have to be brought back to the country anyway and face trial. We will appeal to the court to arrest him through Interpol. PK Haldar verbally informed that he is ill. These are not just words. He did not show any documents of illness.
PK Haldar also said he did not receive a court order. It's something he can't say. He is a fugitive, contempt of court. I will bring the matter to the notice of the court. I will request the IGP to arrest him through Interpol. The ACC has also prepared their team. Action will be taken as soon as PK Haldar enters the country, he said. Meanwhile, the BFIU and the ACC have so far seized the bank accounts of 63 people, including PK Haldar, on charges of being directly and indirectly involved in corruption.

PK Haldar was the Deputy Managing Director (DMD) at IIDFC till 2006. In 2009, he became the MD of Reliance Finance. He joined NRB Global Bank as MD in July 2015. After money laundering from the country, in 2016, the two brothers started a company called Hal Trip Technology in India. Their office is at Mahajati Sadan in Calcutta. In Canada, a company called P&L Hall Holding Inc. was opened in 2014. Its directors are PK Haldar, Pritish Kumar Haldar and his wife Sushmita Saha.

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