Committee Submits White Paper on Economy to Chief Advisor

Bangladesh's economic white paper has been handed over to Dr Muhammad Yunus, the chief advisor to the interim government.

A committee was formed by the interim government to investigate the irregularities and corruption in the country's economic sector. They submitted a report to Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today in this regard.

Head of the committee Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya handed over the report to Chief Adviser at the Chief Advisor's Office in Tejgaon in the capital On Sunday (December 1). Details of the report will be presented on Monday (December 2).

 

Receiving the report, the chief adviser said, this report is a historical document. The occurrences that happened in the financial sector during the past regime were a matter of concern, he said.

 

Prof Yunus said public money was robbed in front of all but nobody talked about it.

Later, the Chief Adviser's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam told BSS that according to the White Paper average of US$16 billion has been laundered abroad every year during the regime of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

 

He said the White Paper has examined each sector of the economy separately and showed how statistics were manipulated to create a story of development.

Although the story of development was portrayed, there was a grand looting behind the development story, Alam said.