The High Court on Thursday said that the Anti-Corruption Commission facilitated the former NBR Global Bank managing director Prashanta Kumar Halder to flee abroad on October 23, 2019, by sending a notice to the immigration authority after his departure through Banapole Land Port.

‘You are now showing seriousness in PK Halder’s case after facilitating him to flee abroad by posting a notice to the immigration authority 13-hour after his departure,’ the bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman observed while hearing a bail prayer of an accused detained for PK Halder’s link.

The High Court on Wednesday asked the additional inspector general of the Special Branch to submit a list of police members deployed at the Banapole Land Port during the travel of PK Halder to India on October 23, 2019.

The immigration authorities would require submitting the list to the bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Mohi Uddin Shamim on March 15 for another bench’s hearing in the Anti-Corruption Commission’s case against PK Halder.

The immigration’s superintendent of police earlier told the court that PK Halder left the country for India through Benapole Land Port at about 3:30 pm on October 23, 2019, just 30 minutes before the immigration authorities received a notice issued by the Anti-Corruption Commission requesting it to prevent him from leaving the country.

The commission issued the notice by post on October 23, 2019, to the immigration headquarters as PK Halder was suspected to have been engaged in embezzling money from banks and financial institutions.

PK Halder is wanted in several loan scams and money laundering cases filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission in January 2020, one year after he had left the country.

According to the immigration police, PK Halder is now staying in Canada as he has dual citizenship of Canada and Bangladesh.