Muhith: BB heist report by Sept

“The probe report of the committee led by Mohammed Farashuddin will be disclosed to the media within September,’’ he said while visiting the under-construction head office of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) at Agargaon in Dhaka yesterday. But last week Muhith said he was “not interested in making the report public.” He claimed that steps were being taken as per the recommendation made in the probe report. But, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Finance last week expressed its dissatisfaction over the ministry’s decision not to release the probe report on Bangladesh Bank heist to the public. The committee also called for the release of the report immediately. Following a meeting held last week, Standing Committee Chairman Abdur Razzak said: “Bangladesh’s global image was more important than the stolen US$81 million.” “The probe report should be published. People should know the names of the masterminds behind this heist and they should be brought to book,” he said. Former Bangladesh Bank governor Farashuddin ha earlier submitted the probe report on the hacking and robbery of $81 million from the central bank’s foreign currency reserve account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in February to the Ministry of Finance on May 30.