Denounces govt’s amnesty plan for money launderers: BNP
Special Correspondent: Dhaka, May-29,
BNP on Sunday described the government’s plan to offer an amnesty for money launderers as a devilish trick to legalise the funds the ruling party leaders siphoned off abroad from Bangladesh.
“They (AL leaders) are looting the assets of the country and siphoning off public money abroad,” said BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.
Speaking at a discussion, he said the government is now saying that it will bring back the laundered money by offering an amnesty. “It’s another devilish trick. It means they themselves laundered the money and will now bring it to the country to make it legal.”
By giving the money launders such an amnesty, the BNP leader said the government will create further scope for the ruling party leaders to plunder more public money.
”This regime can’t be trusted in any way… Awami League can no way be allowed to remain in power anymore,” he said.
He urged BNP leaders and activists to get united and intensify the movement for the restoration of the democracy by ousting the government
BNP orginased the programme at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh, marking the 41st death anniversary of party founder Ziaur Rahman.
Earlier on Thursday, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said the government plans an amnesty for money launderers to bring back the money they had taken out of the country.
He said Bangladesh Bank will issue a circular in this regard with more information before the national budget is placed in Parliament.
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