The Anti-Corruption Commission has summoned four Bangladesh Bank officials for interrogation over former NRB Global Bank managing director Proshanto Kumar Haldar’s loan scam.
The summoned officers are the central bank’s financial institutions inspection department joint directors Mohammad Ferdous Kabir and ABM Mobarak Hossain, deputy director Hamidul Alam and assistant director Kader Ali.
ACC deputy director Gulshan Anowar Prodhan in a letter asked the BB officials to appear in the commission head office on January 24 to face the commission’s interrogation, an ACC official confirmed.
The ACC filed a series of cases against PK Halder and his associates for embezzling hundreds of crores of money through various signboard-based companies from different non-banking financial institutions.
On November 14, 2021, the anti-graft commission filed five cases against PK Halder and 28 others on charges of embezzling about Tk 230 crore from International Leasing and Financial Services Limited.
Earlier on November 10, 2021, the commission approved the charge sheet against PK Halder and 13 others in another case over illegal wealth, money laundering and suspicious bank transactions.
According to the ACC charge sheet, PK Halder accumulated illegal wealth worth Tk 426 crore, laundered Canadian dollars worth Tk 1.17 crore and was involved in suspicious transactions…
