Bankers asked to resist money laundering
Tuesday, 14 December 2010
RAJSHAHI, Dec 13 (BSS): Speakers at a daylong refreshers training course have asked the branch level bankers to put in their best efforts to resist money laundering and finance terrorism for the sake of freeing the nation from various social crimes.
Terming the border-belt Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj, Pabna and Kushtia as the crime-prone districts they said the bankers must be sincere and alert so that money laundering and financing terrorism could be reduced to a larger- scale.
IFIC Bank organised the course on the issue for its branch level executives and officers in the conference hall of Rajshahi Chamber of Commerce and Industry here Sunday for disseminating updated knowledge and strategies on how to stop the malpractice.
Chief Money Laundering Prevention Officer Abdul Hamid of IFIC Bank opened the course while Deputy General Manager Ashraful Alam of Bangladesh Bank addressed as the chief guest.
Stressing the need for preventing money laundering and terror financing the speakers urged the participants to utilise the acquired knowledge from the course in their respective working fields properly for ensuring a transparent atmosphere in the banking sector.
In this regard, they mentioned that free flow of illegal money always create an unusual situation together with breeding various social crimes in every spheres of life.
So, this is the high time to end the malpractice and the bankers have a vital role as the present government as well as the Bangladesh Bank is very much sincere in this regard.
Terming the border-belt Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj, Pabna and Kushtia as the crime-prone districts they said the bankers must be sincere and alert so that money laundering and financing terrorism could be reduced to a larger- scale.
IFIC Bank organised the course on the issue for its branch level executives and officers in the conference hall of Rajshahi Chamber of Commerce and Industry here Sunday for disseminating updated knowledge and strategies on how to stop the malpractice.
Chief Money Laundering Prevention Officer Abdul Hamid of IFIC Bank opened the course while Deputy General Manager Ashraful Alam of Bangladesh Bank addressed as the chief guest.
Stressing the need for preventing money laundering and terror financing the speakers urged the participants to utilise the acquired knowledge from the course in their respective working fields properly for ensuring a transparent atmosphere in the banking sector.
In this regard, they mentioned that free flow of illegal money always create an unusual situation together with breeding various social crimes in every spheres of life.
So, this is the high time to end the malpractice and the bankers have a vital role as the present government as well as the Bangladesh Bank is very much sincere in this regard.