Laundered money to be brought back with support of Washington: Finance Adviser

Adviser to the Ministries of Finance and Commerce Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed has said that the government will take the technical support from Washington in a bid to bring back the money laundered abroad. 

The adviser said this to newsmen after the Adviser's Council Committee on Government Procurement (ACCGP) meeting at the Bangladesh Secretariat on Sunday. 

 “We have formed taskforce to bring back money that has been illegally taken abroad. We have started work on bringing back the money,” he said.

Responding to another question on market conditions, the adviser said that vegetables are seasonal product and assured that prices of vegetables would come down soon.

“We’re doing everything for stabilising the market. The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) and other agencies are providing efforts to ensure supply of daily commodities,” he added.

He informed that the government has started selling agricultural products at affordable prices under Open Market Sale (OMS) programme at different areas in the city to stabilise the market.