Bangladesh seeks help from IMF for financial sector reforms, repatriating laundered money: Finance adviser

Bangladesh has sought technical support from the International Monetary Fund to reform the country’s financial sector and repatriate the money which has been laundered abroad, Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed said today (24 September).

Speaking to journalists after the opening meeting with the visiting IMF mission, he said Bangladesh had also given assurances that it would implement the terms and conditions of the current programme. 

“We mentioned that we already took measures to reform the banking and revenue sector,” he said. 

“We asked for new resources [loans], but did not mention any figure. We will meet the IMF policy makers in Washington in October,” he said.