The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed two separate cases against 26 people, including former NRB Global Bank (now Global Islami Bank) managing director Prashanta Kumar Halder, also known as PK Halder, on charges of embezzling Tk聽49 crore from the bank.
ACC director general (prevention) Akhtar Hossain at a press briefing said that a case was filed against 25 people on charges of approving a loan of Tk 35 crore to Saima Samira Textile Mills Limited within five days of the application submission from Global Islami Bank without following rules and regulations.
Of the money, the accused in collusion with each other embezzled Tk聽29.16 crore, said the case statement.
Another case was filed against 25 people, including PK Halder, on charges of embezzling Tk聽20.52 crore from Global Islami Bank after taking the money as loan in the name of Mahmud Sajid Cotton Mills Ltd.
According to the case statement, the loan also got approval within five days of the application submission without following rules and regulations.
The accused in the two cases are Sayma Samira Textile Mills Ltd and Mahmud Sajid Cotton Mills Ltd鈥檚聽 managing director Mohammad Mohsin, his wife and the two companies鈥� chairperson Shamima Nargis Chowdhury, former Global Islami Bank chairman Nizam Chowdhury, former directors Belal Ahmed, Golam Mohammad, Mohammad Faruk, Arif Ahmed, Osman Gani, Mymuna Khanam, Sarwar Jahan Malek, Mohammad Mostan Billah Adil, Shahana Ferdous, Sajeda Nur Begum, Borhanul Hasan Chowdhury, Mohammad Kutub-ud-dowla , SAM Salimullah, the bank鈥檚 additional managing director Golam Sarwar, SVP Mohammad Mahmud Alam, DMD Kazi Mashiur Rahman Jahed, SAVP Shamsul Alam, SPO Munnusri Chakrabati, principal officer Hasan Ali, junior officers Rifat Iftakharul Alam and Nigar Sultana and junior officer Mizanur Rahman.
PK Halder along with his five associates was arrested on May 14, 2022, from Ashoknagar in West Bengal of India by the Enforcement Directorate, an investigative agency of the Indian finance ministry, on charges of money laundering.
Halder walked out of jail after a special court in Kolkata granted him bail on December 25, 2024, after two and a half years since his arrest in the money laundering case.
There are allegations that between 2009 and 2019, PK Halder and his associates swindled about Tk聽10,000 crore from non-bank financial institutions International Leasing and Financial Services, People鈥檚 Leasing and Financial Services, FAS Finance and Investment Limited and Bangladesh Industrial Finance Company through loan forgery.
