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Chief Adviser (CA) Dr Muhammad Yunus is expected to hold a special meeting with government high-ups on February 27 to devise necessary strategies and find ways to recover the huge amount of money laundered during the previous Sheikh Hasina regime, Bangladesh Bank sources said.
The meeting to be chaired by the chief adviser is expected to discuss the next course of action, challenges, and the steps already taken in this regard.
The high-profile meeting is likely to be held at the CA's office in the capital.
Finance, commerce, foreign affairs, home affairs, and law advisers are supposed to participate in the meet.
The attorney general; principal secretary of the CA office; Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor; Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) chairman; senior secretary of the Public Security Division; secretaries of foreign affairs, Finance Division, Financial Institutions Division (FID), and Economic Relations Division (ERD); National Board of Revenue (NBR) chairman; and head of Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) are also likely to be present.
The government earlier formed a 10-member taskforce, headed by the BB governor, to coordinate the efforts of different agencies to bring back laundered money.
The interim government has already brought back Tk 8.50 billion worth of foreign exchange.
Hundreds of billions of dollars were misappropriated by politicians, oligarchs, and their cronies connected with the Hasina-led government, which was toppled by a student-led mass uprising on August 5 last year.
According to the US-based think tank Global Financial Integrity (GFI), at least $149.20 billion was laundered out of Bangladesh during the 15-year rule of Hasina.
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