BNP on Sunday demanded the government make public the list of the Bangladeshis deposited money in Swiss Bank after an international inquiry.
“We strongly demand the formation of an international probe body and making public a list to clear it how many Bangladeshis have deposited how much money in the Swiss Bank,” BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told a protest meeting.
The BNP leader came up with the remarks apparently reacting to the Prime Minister’s comment that the government has sought the list of those Bangladeshis deposited money in the Swiss Bank and would bring it back.
Taking part in the general discussion on the new budget for fiscal 2014-15 in Parliament on Saturday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said, “We’ve sought the list of the Bangladeshis deposited money in Swiss Bank. We’ll bring the money back…we’ll spend the money for the country’s development.”
Justifying his demand for an international probe body, Fakhrul said the fact over the deposition of money by the ruling party leaders in the Swiss Bank will not come out if the government carries out any investigation into it.
Shahbagh thana BNP arranged the programme protesting the enforced disappearance of its leader Chowdhury Alam four years back demanding the government trace him out immediately.
Fakhrul said the ruling party leaders by plundering public money bought houses in different countries, including the USA, Canada and Malaysia and deposited in the Swiss Bank.
He alleged that the current ‘illegal’ government has passed the new budget for fiscal 2014-15 in a way so that the ruling party leaders can loot public money.
The BNP spokesman said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has turned the country into a state of forced disappearance and terrorism in her bid to cling to power. “The ruling party has established a reign of terror. They way they speak it gives an impression that Awami is a terrorist party.”
He claimed that Awami League had introduced the new the chapter of forced disappearance in the country on June 25, 2010 by making Chowdhury Alam disappeared.
Fakhrul also observed that the forced disappearances are being carried out one after another as BNP has failed to create a strong resistance against it through a strong movement.
Source: UNBConnect
