The court has arrested Mohammad Tajbir Hasan, an associate of former Global Islami Bank Managing Director Prashant Kumar (PK) Halder, who fled the country to India after embezzling and laundering around 3.5 billion taka, and the mastermind of the Haltrip scam, in an ACC case.

Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Sabbir Faiz issued the order after the hearing on Monday (October 20). The court’s ACC General Registration Officer Akkas Ali confirmed the information.

He was arrested at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at midnight on October 3. Later, intelligence agency officials handed him over to the Airport Police Station. The next day, the court ordered him to be sent to jail under Section 54. Two days later, on October 6, an application was filed to show him arrested in an ACC case. The court had fixed October 20 for a hearing on the arrest. He was shown arrested after the hearing on Monday.

Earlier, on October 14, the court acquitted Tajbir in this Section 54 case. During the hearing, the court said that since other cases against the accused are pending, there is no need to remand him and keep him in jail.

Haltrip suddenly disappeared in 2020, taking hundreds of crores of taka from its customers. Numerous passengers and travel agencies were affected. The company’s managing director fled the country in January of that year. Later, Mohammad Tajbir Hasan took citizenship of Turkey and Vanuatu (an island nation in the Pacific Ocean). On the other hand, multiple cases are ongoing against PK Halder, who is being discussed for allegedly embezzling and laundering large sums of money from banks and financial institutions through irregularities. He fled the country after embezzling and laundering about 3.5 thousand crore taka from four institutions.