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ED raids in Bengal on Bangladeshis wanted for financial fraud in own country

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 5/14/2022 1:30:11 PM

New Delhi, May 13 The Enforcement Directorate, in a massive crackdown on Bangladeshi nationals wanted in their country over a financial fraud running into millions, raided at least ten locations across West Bengal. The Bangladeshis have allegedly embezzled thousands of crores of Bangladeshi Taka and siphoned them off to India and other countries. The suspects, identified as Proshanta Kumar Halder, Pritish Kumar Halder, Pranesh Kumar Halder and their associates, were living in India under assumed identities after they managed to obtain citizenship with forged documents. “Proshanta Kumar Halder has been posing as an Indian citizen under the assumed name Shibshankar Halder after he managed to fraudulently obtain various government identities like a ration card, a voter ID.