Prashanta Kumar Halder, better known as PK Halder, will be tried in both Bangladesh and India for his involvement in money laundering, Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Commissioner Mozammel Haque Khan has said.
Many of his arrested accomplices had already given confessional statements against him in court, the ACC official said while attending an event in Madaripur on Friday.
As many as 35 cases have been filed against PK Halder, former managing director of NRB Global Bank and Reliance Finance, and his associates.
“If we could bring PK Halder back to Bangladesh and interrogate him, we would be able to glean further information about his involvements,” he added.
The ACC commissioner said the main task of the ACC was to take a stand against corruption, and that it was working relentlessly to bring back PK Halder and recover the money laundered by him.
PK Halder was arrested in the course of several raids by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED), under the Ministry of Finance of India, in West Bengal on May 13.
He was believed to have fled to Canada after the ACC began probing into his illegal activities related to casino business in 2019.
But he had reportedly been lying low in India since March 2021.
