‘Those involved in bank scandal won’t be spared’

Special Correspondent: Planning Minister AFM Mustafa Kamal disagreed with the prevailing grim situation in the banking sector.

He said, “Everybody is talking about the looting of the banking sector. But I don’t think the situation is that much worse that banks are failing to pay depositors. The government will not spare anybody if found guilty.”

"The government will take action against those whoever is the guilty and already some managing directors of banks are in jail," he added.

Former commerce minister and BNP standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmood Chowdhury said income of the 5 per cent people in the top level increased enormously that none can imagine.

“These people are involved in the bank looting. But there is no action against them by the government. Rather, the government is helping them. Who are they everybody knows it”, he said.

The BNP senior leader said these people looted share market are buying properties in Dubai, Canada and other countries. “If NBR wants to catch them, they can easily identify them”.

He criticised the government for decreasing taxes of bank owners and increasing the taxes of the bottom line peoples.

He observed that the government has been failed to create skilled manpower as education sector was destroyed by the work policies.

He said Bangladesh’s position in human development index was degraded and now 40 per cent educated youth are unemployed.

State Minister for Planning and Finance Abdul Mannan said there is no scope to say everything is lost by the bank-loot.

He said those people who are unemployed are in such situation by their own choices. “There so many ways to be employed under the government’s different initiatives. But they don’t take those”.

FBCCI member Monjur Ahmed termed the budget failed to address the government’s priority issues in trade and business.
 

risingbd/Dhaka/June 24, 2018/Hasnat/A K Azad