The Bangladesh interim government led by chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus will enact a special law soon to facilitate the process of bringing back the money laundered from the country.
The chief adviser鈥檚 press secretary, Shafiqul Alam, said this while briefing reporters at the Foreign Service Academy in the capital Dhaka on Monday.
He said that the draft of the law would be formulated within one week.
Shafiqul made the comments after the chief adviser held a meeting with the 11-member taskforce formed in September 2024 to recover stolen money at his office in the capital on the day.
Referring to the white paper on the state of the economy, the press secretary said that a total of $234 billion was siphoned off from Bangladesh between 2009 and August 5, 2023.
He said, 鈥楥hief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus urged for expediting efforts to bring back billions in money stolen both from the banking system and other means.鈥�
He also said that it was the top priority of the government as they wanted to bring the stolen money back at any cost.
Shafiqul also said that the interim government had already talked to about 200 law firms and it might go for agreements with 30 to facilitate the stolen money recovery process.
He further said that the government was working on 11 big companies and individuals, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her family members, over money laundering.
He said that the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit and the joint investigation team had detected assets owned by Sheikh Hasina and her family members in the United States, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and the Cayman Islands.
Besides, former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury鈥檚 assets were also detected in the United Arab Emirates and the UK, he said.
Noting that many people laundered money from Bangladesh abroad in the name of tuition fees for their children, he cited an example saying that an individual sent Tk聽400-500 crore abroad as tuition fees for a semester of his son.
Bangladesh Bank governor Ahsan H Mansur, who was present in the meeting with chief adviser, told 抖阴精品 that the chief adviser was apprised of the measures taken to bring back the money stolen during the regime of ousted Awami League.
He highlighted that they had to win the legal battle against the suspected money launderers in the domestic courts to establish necessary grounds to bring back money from abroad.
Chief adviser deputy press secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder at the press briefing informed that there had been some delay in the distribution of textbooks this year.
He said that 39.60 crore textbooks were supposed to be distributed across various levels, of which 38.29 crore copies have been printed and the printed books is 97.2 per cent of the total books. Most of these have already been distributed, he said.
He further stated that they were hopeful that all textbooks would be printed and distributed by the middle of this month.
Azad also mentioned that the new education adviser CR Abrar had announced that the printing of next year鈥檚 textbooks would begin early to ensure they are delivered to students on time.
