by Staff CorrespondentDhaka – A high-powered committee formed to investigate systematic corruption and irregularities in Bangladesh’s financial and economic sector on Sunday submitted reports what it called a White Paper on its findings to the chief adviser of the interim government.
Debapriya Bhattacharya, the head of the committee on preparing white paper, handed the report to Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus at the latter’s office in Dhaka’s Tejgaon.
Soon after assuming office in August, Yunus ordered formation of a number of commissions and panels aiming at state reforms. The committee on preparing the white paper on the economy worked nearly three months to come up with its report.
The chief adviser said this report is a historical document, according to the Chief Adviser’s office.
The occurrences happened in the financial sector during the past regime was a matter of concern, he said.
He said public money was robbed in front of all but none talked about it.
State-run Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha news agency reported that according to the White Paper average US$16 billion has been laundered abroad every year during the regime of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The agency referred to the chief adviser’s press secretary Shafiqul Alam as saying.
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 told the news agency.
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