Legal steps will be taken against those who siphoned capital out of Bangladesh, Law Minister Anisul Huq has said, referring to a report that Bangladesh lost as much as $8.97 billion in 2014 to illicit fund outflows.
Published : 03 May 2017, 06:34 PM
Bangladesh lost $75.15 billion due to trade misinvoicing and other unrecorded outflows between 2005 and 2014, according to the report released by Washington-based Global Financial Integrity or GFI on Monday.
“If the report is found true, the perpetrators will be tried under Anti-Money Laundering Act," the minister told reporters at the secretariat on Wednesday.