The National Central Bureau (NCB), Interpol's regional office in Dhaka, has requested its Indian counterpart to extradite former NRB Global Bank managing director Prashanta Kumar Halder, better known as PK Halder, and five others who have been arrested by India’s Directorate of Enforcement (ED).

Expressing satisfaction at the arrest of Prashanta Kumar Halder, better known as PK Halder, in India on charge of laundering a huge sum of money, a High Court bench today (May 16, 2022) said the Indian government should be thanked for the arrest.

Prashanta Kumar Halder, better known as PK Halder, is the eldest of three sons of primary school teacher Lilabati Haldar and tailor Pralab Chandra Halder of Matibhanga union under Pirojpur’s Nazirpur upazila.

Officials of India’s Enforcement Directorate, probing the money laundering case against Proshanta Kumar Halder – better known as PK Halder – would ascertain if he took the help of local influentials to settle down in Ashoknagar, West Bengal, after sneaking in from Bangladesh.

Sustained interrogation of Proshanta Kumar Halder alias PK Harder – the arrested mastermind of Tk 10,000 crore banking scam in Bangladesh – by India’s Directorate of Enforcement has revealed that he possessed passports of Bangladesh, India and Grenada and that he allegedly siphoned off the money to various countries.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said legal action will be taken against Prashanta Kumar Halder alias PK Halder after receiving relevant documents officially.

Assets of former NRB Global Bank Managing Director (MD) Proshanta Kumar Halder alias PK Halder will be confiscated, Attorney General AM Amin Uddin has said.

Detectives of India’s Enforcement Directorate and other security agencies today began interrogating former NRB Global Bank MD PK Halder, a day after his arrest in connection with money laundering case against him.

India is likely to hand over Prashanta Kumar Halder, former MD of NRB Global Bank who is accused in a huge bank money defrauding case, to Bangladesh.

Former NRB Global Bank Managing Director (MD) Proshanta Kumar Halder, alias PK Halder, and his lawyer Sukumar were arrested in Ashoknagar of India's West Bengal this morning (May 14, 2022).