Forex worth Tk 1.0b exchanged daily, mostly laundered: ACC
Dhaka, March 27 -- Foreign currencies worth about Tk 1.0 billion are exchanged in underhand dealings at Dhaka's airport daily and mostly laundered, says the ACC after suing 21 suspects.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) detected the forex flight from airport as a major factor that is "intensifying dollar crisis" in Bangladesh.
Its revelation on dollar-syndicate busting comes at a time when the country's foreign-exchange reserves have been on a slide with its domino effect on the economy, especially squeezing import and fuelling prices.
The ACC filed a case against 21 persons, 19 of them bank officials, on charge of illegal transactions in foreign currencies at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA).
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