Dhaka, Aug. 28 -- Experts at a roundtable on Wednesday called for institutionalising forensic audit as only 23 per cent of officials in the internal audit and credit recovery department of commercial banks claimed to have enough knowledge of the concept in a study.

The study titled "Institutionalising forensic audit in banks in Bangladesh" also found that 48 per cent of the respondents had knowledge about forensic audit to some extent.

The findings of the study were unveiled at the discussion organised by the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) at the BIBM auditorium in the capital.

BIBM carried out the study.

A total of 23 per cent of the respondents merely heard about the concept, and 6 per cent knew nothing about it.

Be...