ED Files ₹26.7 Crore Bank Fraud Case Against Kolkata Firms Under PMLA
December 11, 2025
Kolkata officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed a prosecution complaint against P.K. Enterprises’ proprietor Prasenjit Das, Chandan Sarkar, Laltu Saha, and three others. The case involves a ₹26.7 crore bank fraud linked to money laundering under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002. The ED lodged the complaint at a special PMLA court in Kolkata. The fraud is tied to the late Purnendu Das, previous owner of M/s K.P.S. Enterprise and father of Prasenjit Das.
An official ED statement on December 10, 2025, detailed that Purnendu Das’s firm had taken an ₹8 crore Packing Credit facility and ₹25 crore Foreign Bill Negotiation facility from the erstwhile Allahabad Bank (now Indian Bank). This was for exporting onions to Bangladesh. However, forged export bills caused a loss of ₹26.72 crore to the bank. The investigation found that export bills worth ₹25 crore, linked to Letters of Credit from Bangladeshi banks, were unpaid when due.
The ED discovered that Purnendu Das diverted loan money to his son’s business and personal accounts. "He also issued 70 bearer cheques in the name of different suppliers of goods [onions], including himself, and withdrew cash using those 70 bearer cheques through employees of M/s K.P.S. Enterprise," the ED said. Earlier, the ED had attached five immovable properties worth ₹34.42 lakh in the case.
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Enforcement directorate
Bank fraud
Money laundering
P.k. Enterprises
Export Fraud
Pmla
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