The Anti-Corruption Commission has obtained evidences that former NRB Global Bank managing director Prasanta Kumar Halder and his associates had embezzled Tk 1,251 crore from FAS Finance and Investment Limited, said commission officials.
An ACC director on Tuesday said that the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit had shared its findings with the commission recently.
He said that the commission would soon file a case after determining the responsibility of the people over the embezzlement.
In another incident, former International Leasing and Financial Services Limited managing director Rashedul Haque on Tuesday gave a confessional statement before a Dhaka court in a case filed on charge of embezzling in association with PK Halder about Tk 29 crore from the ILFSL
The case was filed on January 25 making Rashedul the main accused, a day after he had been arrested by the commission.
On Tuesday, the investigating officer of the case Gulshan Anwar, an ACC deputy director, produced Rashedul before the court and he voluntarily agreed to give a confessional statement.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Baki Billah recorded his statement, general recording bench officer M Aminul Islam said.
The ACC earlier arrested Shankha Bepari, an associate of PK Halder who allegedly laundered over Tk 10,000 crore of four non-banking financial institutions and fled abroad.
