Dhaka, Dec. 3 -- It is very dismaying that many big businesses of the country send their profits abroad but do not repay their bank loans. These business houses and others with government patronage have plundered public money and bought expensive properties abroad for living in unimaginable luxury. Really, this government can claim huge success in helping plundering of the country!

This anti-people practice of transferring money from the country was aptly highlighted at a discussion in the capital where noted economists including Wahiduddin Mahmud and Rehman Sobhan presented their views. The bank loan scams have reached such a height that even the High Court has recently reminded banks and financial institutions that they must display th...