Seattle Daily Star

  In a key development, former Managing Director of NRB Global Bank and Reliance Finance Limited, Prashant Kumar Halder was arrested on Saturday. In a key development, former Managing Director of NRB Global Bank and Reliance Finance Limited Prashant Kumar Halder was arrested on Saturday. PK Halder was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate, a day after the central agency carried out search operations at various premises linked to Bangladesh nationals. Apart from Halder, his associates’ premises across the state of West Bengal were also searched. In the searches that were carried out at the request of the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit and Anti Corruption Commission, huge properties of PK Halder, including houses, and many important documents, including land deeds, have been recovered. Halder bought immovable properties, floated companies on fake identity cards In a press release, ED has said that Halder has been posing himself as an Indian citizen in the name of Shi...

  The Enforcement Directorate (ED) will produce her before a local court here seeking her remand. Jharkhand mining secretary Pooja Singhal was arrested Wednesday by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case linked to alleged embezzlement of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme funds in Khunti and other suspicious financial transactions, officials said. Officials said the 2000-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer was taken into custody under criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) after two consecutive days of questioning by the federal probe agency. Sources claimed Singhal was evasive in her replies, and hence was arrested. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) will produce her before a local court here seeking her remand. She had arrived at the probe agency’s regional office in the Hinoo area of Ranchi around 10:40 am for the second day of questioning and was arrested around 5 pm. Singhal was at the ED offi...

  The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted searches in Jharkhand and four other places in connection with a case related to corruption and misappropriation of MGNREGA funds. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted searches in Jharkhand and four other states in connection with a case related to corruption and misappropriation of MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Act) funds to the tune of Rs 18 crore. Earlier, the ED had arrested Ram Binod Prasad Sinha, the then section officer and junior engineer of Kunti, Jharkhand. Ram Binod Prasad Sinha was arrested after 16 FIRs were registered against him by the Jharkhand Vigilance Bureau. He was accused of misappropriating Rs 18 crores of MGNREGA funds in 2007–2008. Later, the ED filed a Prosecution Complaint (chargesheet) against Ram Binod Prasad Sinha. During Sinha’s questioning, names of senior bureaucrats who could have been part of MGNREGA fund misappropriation were revealed. IAS Pooja Singhal was among ...