The Enforcement Directorate has arrested six individuals, together with the mastermind, beneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in reference to a financial institution fraud of Rs 9,000 crore in Bangladesh.
Among the arrested is one Proshanta Kumar Halder, a Bangladeshi nationwide, who’s accused of defrauding banks of his personal nation and forging his identification as an Indian citizen to drift companies in India.
The arrests got here after the ED carried out raids at 11 premises linked to Bangladeshi nationals Proshanta Kumar Halder, Pritish Kumar Halder and their associates throughout the state of West Bengal.
Proshanta was arrested alongside along with his 5 associates throughout these searches.
The ED stated that Proshanta was discovered within the disguised identification of Indian citizen as Shibshankar Halder. “During searches it was revealed that he along with his other associates fraudulently obtained various government identities like ration card from, Indian voter ID card, PAN and Aadhar card,” the ED was quoted by India Today as saying.
According to the central company, these Bangladeshi haven’t simply floated companies in India on the idea of pretend identities, however have additionally bought properties in West Bengal.
“It has been further revealed that the subject case is an offence of Cross Border Implication under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act as Proshanta Kumar Halder has been found to be accused in over 10000 crore Bangladesh Taka (Rs 9000 crore) bank fraud in Bangladesh and alleged to have siphoned off money outside Bangladesh to various countries. Besides his Bangladesh and Indian passport, he was also found in possession of Grenada passport,” the ED added.
The Interpol had additionally issued a Red Corner Notice (RCN) towards Proshanta primarily based on a request from the Bangladesh authorities.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”