Speakers at a daylong workshop have asked the branch level bankers to put in their best efforts to resist money laundering and finance towards tourism for the sake of freeing the nation from various social crimes.

Terming the border-belt Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj as the crime-prone districts they said the bankers must be sincere and alert so that money laundering and finance towards terrorism could be reduced to a greater extent.

South East Bank Limited organised the workshop on the issue for the branch level executives and officers of the two districts at its Rajshahi branch here on Sunday aimed at disseminating updated knowledge and strategies on how to stop the malpractices.Deputy general manager of Bangladesh Bank Kazi Rafiqunnabi addressed the workshop as the chief guest while Joint director Enamul Haque and deputy director Saidul Islam Taher spoke on the occasion as resource persons.

Senior vice president of the South East Bank Limited Ariful Haque chaired the inaugural session. Stressing the need on preventing the money laundering and finance towards terrorism the speakers urged upon the participants to utilize 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.

The Independent/Bangladesh/ 26th Dec 2011