POBNEWS24, Dhaka Aug 24, 2022 : The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two women associates of PK (Prasanth Kumar) Halder, who smuggled thousands of rupees from the country. RAB said that these two women were arrested while leaving the country. However, initially their names were not disclosed.
RAB’s Legal and Media Wing Assistant Director ASP Al Amin confirmed the arrest to the media on Wednesday (August 24) morning.
He said that PK Halder, who embezzled about two hundred crores of PLFSL company, is under the arrest of the Indian law enforcement agencies. His two female associates wanted to leave Bangladesh. RAB intelligence surveillance was going on for a long time. Both of them have been arrested on this basis.
Commander Khandaker Al Moin, Director of Legal and Media Wing of RAB, said that details will be given in a press conference organized at Karwan Bazar RAB Media Center on Wednesday (August 24) at noon.
Earlier on May 14, the country’s intelligence agency Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested PK Halder along with five accomplices from a house in Ashoknagar, North Twenty-four Parganas district of West Bengal, India. Former managing director of Bangladesh NRB Global Bank and fugitive accused in money laundering case PK Halder. There are at least 35 cases against him for looting and embezzling around 10 thousand crores from four financial institutions in Bangladesh.
Meanwhile, after the news of PK Halder’s arrest, the Bangladesh government took the initiative to bring him back to the country. As part of this, at the beginning of June, the documents of the case were collected from the concerned department and a letter was sent to the Home Ministry of India on behalf of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Earlier, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrested PK Halder’s girlfriend Avantika Baral from Dhanmondi area on January 13 last year. Nahida Runai, another girlfriend of PK Halder and vice president of International Leasing, was arrested from Motijheel area on the afternoon of March 16 of the same year. According to ACC information, Nahida Runai was one of PK’s money laundering accomplices.
PK Haldar was born in Dighirjan area of Nazirpur upazila of Pirojpur. He was known as a talented child of a poor family in his area. Father late Pranabendu Halda was a tailor in Dighirjan Bazar by profession. Mother Lilavati Halder was a school teacher. After passing SSC from Dighirjan Secondary School and HSC from Government PC College, Bagerhat, he took engineering degree from Mechanical Department of BUET. After that he started working in Jute Factory of Beximco Group. Until the ACC case, he was known as a big businessman and a philanthropist. Later people came to know about his deception.
On the ground and according to information from the villagers, PK’s mother Lilabati came to the area in 2002 after establishing the college in the name of Halder. At that time, after being assaulted by a local person, he did not come back to his village Dighirjan. After the money laundering scandal came to light, the teacher mother moved to Ashoknagar, India, home of another son, Pritish Halder. Another brother of PK Halder, Pranesh Halder, is also said to be staying in Canada.
