The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) said a total of three letters were sent to Swiss banks to provide information about Bangladeshi individuals.
This information was reported from a source of BFIU on Sunday, reports Bangla Tribune.
The Swiss Bank published its annual report on June 16 this year.
The next day, the Financial Intelligence Unit of Switzerland was requested to provide necessary information about the money deposited by Bangladeshi banks and individuals in various Swiss banks through Egmont Secure Web (ESW).
However, Bangladesh has not yet received any information about this.
The BFIU shares information with foreign financial intelligence units to prevent, investigate and investigate money laundering and terrorist financing. But the means of exchanging all this information globally is ESW.
After becoming a member of ESW in July 2013, Bangladesh has sought information on 67 individuals and organizations till July this year.
FIU of Switzerland was requested to provide this information through ESW.
However, Switzerland said it had no information on the others except one, which was given to ACC by BFIU.
Earlier on August 10, at the “DCAB Talk” organized by the Diplomatic Correspondents Association, Bangladesh (DCAB) at the National Press Club, Switzerland's ambassador to Dhaka, Nathalie Shuard, said that the Bangladesh government did not ask for information about the money deposited in the Swiss bank for any specific person.
“Switzerland continues operations to correct Swiss bank errors. But I want to tell you that Switzerland is not a safe place to keep black money,” she added.
After taking notice of the matter on August 11, the High Court asked the state party and the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to inform why the information of the depositors in the Swiss bank was not requested.
The High Court bench consisting of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Khizir Hayat passed the order on its own initiative.
Meanwhile, on Friday, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen alleged that the Swiss ambassador had lied.
“Bangladesh Bank governor and finance secretary told me earlier, that they asked for information, but they (Swiss Bank) did not reply,” he added.