The White Paper on the state of Bangladesh’s economy will include a review of “smuggled money”,
according to the head of the committee, Debapriya Bhattacharya, entrusted to prepare the White Paper.
Bangladesh bleeds as
over US$3 billion drains from Bangladesh annually through offshore accounts. According to a recent report,
close to US$150 billion was siphoned off the country during 15 years of kleptocratic Hasina regime’s mis-rule.
Nearly US$50 billion went out of the country in the first six years (2009-2015) of the Hasina regime.