Fazle Kabir, newly appointed governor of Bangladesh Bank, yesterday 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 the Dhaka airport after arriving from New York at 6:30am yesterday.
“We will first look into whether there is any need of repairing damage after the cyber disaster,” he said.
We will take measure so that such incident never repeats, 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 the finance minister on Tuesday hours after Atiur Rahman stepped down on allegation of keeping the largest theft hidden.
Later the government issued a circular in this regard on Wednesday saying the former finance secretary Fazle Kabir had been appointed as the Bangladesh Bank governor for four years.
He was supposed to join 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 the Finance Ministry.
