Fazle Kabir, newly appointed governor of Bangladesh Bank, has said his first mission would be to repair damage that central bank faced over the forex reserve heist of $101 million.
He expressed his plan to the journalists at Dhaka airport after arriving from New York at 6:30am Thursday.
“We will first look whether there is any need of repairing damage after the cyber disaster” he said.
We will take measure so that such incident never repeat, he said.
Kabir came home a day before he was scheduled to return.
He vowed that he would put his full effort to do his job responsibly given by the government.
In response to a question that whether he will continue the initiative of inclusive banking that immediate past governor Atiur Rahman took he replied that at this moment he can't say it.
Fazle Kabir's name was announced as new governor by finance minister on Tuesday hour after Atiur Rahman stepped down on allegation of keeping the largest theft hidden.
Later government issued a circular in this regard Wednesday saying former finance secretary Fazle Kabir has been appointed as BB governor for four years.
He is supposed to join at the office Sunday next week.
At present Kabir is the chairman of Sonali Bank’s board of directors. He retired from public service as a senior secretary of Finance Ministry.