Dhaka, April 17 -- The interim government has decided to form a committee to look into different financial crimes carried out during the Awami League regime that collapsed in August after a 15-year rule.

Environment Advisor Syeda Rizwana Hasan said the decision came at a meeting of the advisory council on Thursday.

According to a report forwarded earlier by the whitepaper framing committee, $234 billion have been laundered from Bangladesh involving 28 methods of alleged corruption over the past decade and a half.

Allegations of money laundering and embezzlement of huge amounts of loans from banks during the previous government have been rife.

According to these allegations, a single group took over the ownership of at least seven bank...