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Author Mushtaq Ahmed was a visionary and one of the partners in the country’s first crocodile farm. He died in prison Thursday night while in custody under the Digital Security Act.
The owner of that crocodile farm is now the controversial Prashant Kumar (PK) Haldar. On December 22, 2004, Mushtaq set up the country’s first commercial crocodile farm on 13 acres of land in Hatiber village, 16 km from Bhaluka in Mymensingh.
Before that, no one had the idea of crocodile farming in Bangladesh. The name of your farm is Reptiles Farm Limited.
And that Mushtaq farm is now in the possession of the famous Prashant Kumar aka PK Haldar who fled abroad embezzling three and a half billion rupees!
PK Haldar took control of the farm and took large loans from various companies on behalf of Reptiles Farm, none of which have been repaid yet.
According to sources, PK Haldar took over the Mushtaq farm in 2013 when he was the CEO of Reliance Finance. Mezbahul Haque, Mushtaq’s business partner, assisted him in this task. Mezbah was a director of a private bank at the time and president of the farm. Mushtaq was the MD. Mejbahul Haque left the country after handing over the farm to PK Haldar. Soon after, under pressure from PK Haldar, Mushtaq Ahmed was forced to sign a share transfer deed of the farm in his name. Mushtaq signed at PK Haldar’s home at Dhanmondi No. 1 Road.
Mushtaq Ahmed posted a sad-hearted Facebook post seven years after the farm was lost.
On February 16, 2020, Mushtaq wrote on his Facebook about the change in ownership of the farm: ‘The crocodile farm is now a company. June 3, 2010 was a special day. Crocodiles will be exported from Bangladesh for the first time. Two months later, President Mezbahul Haque announced that he would sell the company and asked me to sign a technical document. I said it is not possible. Beginning of the Holocaust-Kachari. Then Prashant Kumar Haldar came forward. From what he told me, I understood that if I did not agree with Prashant’s words, both my handle and my coat would go away. At one point I was forced to sell my shares ”.
According to various sources about the Reptiles firm, Mezbahul Haque had a 36 percent stake in the farm at the time of its formation. Mushtaq Ahmed owned 15 percent of the shares. Mushtaq Ahmed’s uncle on Mezbahul Haque. Mushtaq took a loan from the Bangladesh Bank EEF project. As such, the central bank’s share was 49 percent.
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