Seminar on Financial Crimes in Bangladesh, New York

Expatriates Bangladeshis in USA and and international experts in a seminar on massive financial crimes in Bangladesh urge Bangladesh’s President Advocate Abdul Hamid to intervene to stop the rampant financial crimes in Bangladesh including ‘bank dacuities’ and the misappropriation of money in the financial institutions of the country immediately.
They also urge Bangladesh’s President to set up a neutral, credible and acceptable investigation commission to investigate the financial crimes, including money laundering around 20 billions, a year, publish a White Paper that would be made public as soon as possible and set up a tribunal to bring the culprits under justice.

At a seminar on ‘Financial Crimes in Bangladesh’ at Jewish Center of Jackson Heights held on 30th September organized By ‘International Committee Against Financial Crimes in Bangladesh’ an worldwide campaign demanding trial for financial crimes against Bangladesh people, in associated with Washington based worldwide watch dog of Illicit Money Transfer, Global Financial Integrity (GFI).

Prominent economists Dr. Showkat Ali of School of Business and Finance, Long Island University, New York, presented a paper titled ‘Massive Financial Crimes in Bangladesh: How to Ensure Accountability’, and Dr Dev Kar, Chief Economist of Global Financial Integrity (GFI), presented paper titled ‘Illicit Money Transfer from Bangladesh: Policy Recommendation for Government’.
Dr Mahfuz Chowdhury, a Professor of Economics at the State University of New York and Mahmudur Reza Chowdhury, an expert in Socio-Politics and Founder of Mukta Forum, also intervened in the panel.