The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed another case of misappropriation and money laundering against 12 persons including Prasanta Kumar Halder (PK Halder).
ACC assistant director Rakibul Hayat filed the case on Thursday morning at the Dhaka Integrated District Office-1.
In the case they have been charged with misappropriation and laundering Tk 440 million (Tk 44 crore) of FAS Finance and Investment Ltd which had been provided as a loan in the name of a fake firm, Diya Shipping Limited.
The other accused are-- NBR Global Bank and Reliance Finance Limited's former MD and fugitive accused Prasanta Kumar Halder, Diya Shipping Ltd's former managing director Shiv Prasad Banerjee, director Papiya Banerjee, FAS Finance and Investment's chairman MA Hafiz, former chairman Md Siddiqur Rahman and vice chairman Md Jahangir Alam, director Arun Kumar Kundu, Anjan Kumar Roy, Md Mostain Billah, Ujjal Kumar Nandi and FAS Finance's former managing director and CEC Md Russel Shahriar.
According to the case statement, PK Halder misused his authority and resorted to forgery to take a loan of Tk 440 million (Tk 44 crore) in the name of a fake company Diya Shipping Ltd from his own company FAS. This loan was approved at FAS Finance's 163rd board meeting.
After approval, the loan was released in the span of time from 29 December 2014 to 29 December 2015. Later he misappropriated this money and deposited in his own bank accounts and other companies and bank accounts in which he had vested interest and siphoned off the money. This was detected in Bangladesh Bank's BFIU investigations.
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