Finance Minister AMA Muhith has claimed that only a few Bangladeshi people are depositing their money in Swiss banks, and amounts of money they deposited is decreasing. “The amount of money deposed in the Swiss banks by Bangladeshi citizens has not increased. Rather it saw a drop last year,” Muhith told reporters following a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase at Bangladesh Secretariat on Wednesday. “The Anti Corruption Commission chairman had said representatives of Swiss banks are living in Dhaka, and they are provoking the rich to deposit their laundered money in the banks. On Tuesday, the minister, when delivering his speech in the parliament, said: “Bangladeshi citizens’ deposits in Swiss Banks are not a big amount.

Source: Dhaka Tribune July 12, 2017 18:11 UTC