Jatiya Party lawmaker Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu yesterday slammed the government and the finance minister for failing to ensure good governance and bring back smuggled money from abroad.
Some Tk10,000 crore was looted from the state-owned Sonali Bank, he said adding that the government could not recover the plundered money. It is not the government but people who are to bear the brunt of such looting, he told parliament.
The Jatiya Party general secretary demanded cancellation of proposed Tk5000 crore budgetary allocation for the state-owned banks to overcome the capital shortfall caused by the money plundering.
Criticising Finance Minister AMA Muhith, he said: “Who gave you the right to replace looted money with money of taxpayers? The allocation will have to be cancelled.”
He also expressed dissatisfaction over the absence of Finance Minister AMA Muhith, State Minister for Finance and Planning Abdul Mannan and officials of the NBR during budget discussion in the House.
Bablu said the government had failed to take actions against the mastermind behind the share market scams even after the probe report of Khondkar Ibrahim Khalid.
The Jatiya Party leader said: “Some Tk4283 crore was smuggled and deposited in Swiss Bank.”
“We want to know about those who siphoned off money abroad,” he said asking the government to bring those money back and identify those money launderers.