Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has rejected the possibility of Saradha chit fund scam saying that no evidence was found over any such transaction where money was routed to Bangladesh.
The minister also confirmed that his ministry saw no money trail leading to any militant group in his country, reported The Hindu, an Indian New outlet.
He made the statement while speaking to journalists on the sidelines of a business conclave organised by Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) in Kolkata on Saturday night.
He said: “There is no evidence of any Mujahideen funds in any bank of Bangladesh.”
However, he added that the Bangladeshi banks need to probe more.
“As far as we know, there is no fund for militant activities in banks.”
The recent investigation into Saradha scam so far has not revealed any transaction where money was routed to Bangladesh to fund terrorist activities, Jitendra Singh, minister of state in the Indian Prime Minister's Office, informed the Lok Sabha on December 3.
“So far, investigation into Saradha chit fund scam don't show its money is routed to Bangladesh to fund terror activities,” the Indian state minister said.
Besides, in the last couple of months the Bangladeshi authorities also said Dhaka was yet to discover a link between the non-banking financial scam in West Bengal and funding of terror groups in Bangladesh, especially Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu and the chief of the team of intelligence officers, Monirul Islam, also told journalists that Dhaka had “no evidence” to link the Trinamool Congress to the funding of violent non-State actors across the international border.
