Extortion not stopped yet: Salehuddin

Adviser to the interim government on the Ministries of Finance and Commerce Dr Salehuddin Ahmed has extortion is not stopped in the country yet.  

The Finance Adviser said this while replying to queries of reporters after UNDP Resident Representative Stefan Liller met him at the finance ministry office at the Secretariat on Monday.

He reiterated the government’s stance to curb extortion for putting a positive impact in the market and thus containing inflation further.

“I’ve said time and again to take steps for curbing extortion . . . we’ve never said anything negative in this regard. We’ll definitely take steps,” he said.

Mentioning that the issue of curbing extortion is not only an economic and trade related decision, Dr Salehuddin said, but it has also some political aspects associated with some social values.

Dr Salehuddin also suggested for honestly looking into the government’s strict measures for market monitoring as the price of essentials would not come down all on a sudden.

He alleged that there were many reasons for the high inflation trend in the past regime as more money was printed unwisely and it had also an impact on the market. “It will take some certain time to put everything in the right track,”