Speakers at a daylong workshop 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 greater extent.
National Bank Limited organised the workshop titled “Prevention of Money Laundering and Finance in Terrorism” for its branch level executives and officers at its Regional Office  on Monday for disseminating updated knowledge and strategies on how to stop the malpractice..
Regional executive vice-president of the bank Wasef Ali addressed the workshop as the chief guest while vice- president and chief money laundering prevention officer Abdul Wahab of the bank and deputy director of Bangladesh Bank Nazrul Islam spoke as special guests. Senior vice-president Binoy Kumar Shikder chaired the session.
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.

News: The Independent / Bangladesh/ 26-Oct-2011