Anti-Corruption Commission filed 12 cases against 35 individuals, including former Managing Director of NRB Global Bank and Reliance Finance Limited Prashant Kumar Halder, widely known as PK Halder, on charges of embezzling Tk 433 crore 96 lakh 18 thousand by creating fake loan documents in the names of 12 non-functional organizations.
The cases were filed on January 14 at the ACC's Dhaka Integrated District Office by Deputy Director Md. Mashiur Rahman and Deputy Assistant Director Md. Imran Akon. According to the charge statements, the accused fraudulently created loan accounts in the names of several organizations, paid only one or two installments in some cases, and defaulted entirely on others.
Despite the absence of regular repayments, the loans were repeatedly rescheduled in board meetings "without any objection," indicating institutional collusion and abuse of fiduciary authority.
The ACC further stated that loans were sanctioned using forged documents even though the concerned organizations had no actual business operations. Upon verification, investigators found that the addresses listed as head offices did not exist and that all the beneficiary organizations were newly formed shell entities with no commercial activity.
Apart from PK Halder, the accused include former FAS Finance and Investment Limited chairman Md. Siddiqur Rahman, Mahfuza Rahman Baby, Mohammad Abdul Hafiz, and Abdul Motalib Ahmed. Former managing director Md. Russell Shahriar, Md. Mofiz Uddin Chowdhury, Ujjal Kumar Nandi, Md. Omar Sharif, Md. Mostafa, Mostafa Aminur Rashid, Pritish Kumar Halder, Basu Deb Banerjee, Tasin Bin Tanjir, Md. Omar Faruk, Md. Rafiqul Islam, Utpal Majumdar, Sukumar Saha, Ramprasad Roy, Gopal Chandra Ganguly, Abu Rajib Maruf, Amal Chandra Das, former director Md. Jahangir Alam, Md. Nurul Haque Gazi, Md. Abul Shahjahan, Anjan Kumar Roy, Kazi Mahjabin Momtaz, Soma Ghosh, Md. Mostain Billah, Arun Kumar Kundu, Pradeep Kumar Nandi, Uddhav Mallick, Md. Ataharul Islam, Birendra Kumar Som, and Anita Karo have also been named in the cases.
