Staff Reporter:
Four top officials of Bangladesh Bank (BB) yesterday submitted their resignations to the Financial Insti-tution Division (FID) after allegations of giving US $30 million to Salman F Rahman on August 4 from Export Development Fund (EDF) surfaced.
The resigned officials are- Deputy Governors Kazi Sayedur Rahman and Khurshid Alam, Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) Chief Masud Biswas, and Central Bank Policy Advisor Abu Farah Md Nasser.
Mohiuddin Rony, a coordinator of the anti-discrimination students movement, on behalf of the students gave them an ultimatum to resign by 1 pm on Monday .
The students alleged that the top officials were involved in illegally providing $30 million from EDF on August 4, so they have to resign as soon as possible.
After this ultimatum, the four officials submitted their resignation letters to the secretary of FID at noon.
The deputy governors and BFIU Chief submitted their resignations to the FID secretary, while the Policy Advisor submitted his resignation to the central bank governor.
Students’ coordinator Mohiuddini alleged that Salman F. Rahman, the owner of Beximco Group, stole $30 million from the EDF fund on August 4.
“If their friends are in charge of the central bank, the money of the state will be looted again. When they have money they will buy weapons to kill Chatra-Janata (Students and common people). This will desta-bilize the country,” he pointed out.
