BB asked to inform about dubious banking transactions: Minister

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said Bangladesh Bank has been asked to inform intelligence agencies about dubious banking transactions to detect terror financing sources, reports UNB.
The government also decided to monitor whether the corporate social responsibility (CSR) fund of the country’s banks is being used in terror financing, he said. The minister came up with the revelation while talking to reporters after a meeting of the committee on resisting militancy held at the Secretariat.
He said educational institutions where involvement of militancy was earlier detected are now under watch, but the monitoring system for the institutions will be strengthened further.
Director General of the Islamic Foundation Shamim Mohammad Afjal informed the meeting that so far the model Kutba (sermon), prepared by Islamic Foundation to raise public awareness against the militancy, was delivered in some 28.49 lakh mosques across the country, the minister told reporters.
Besides, imams (Islamic clerics) in their speeches before the sermon speak against militancy, drug, terrorism in every mosque of the country, he quoted the Islamic Foundation DG saying as.

BB asked to inform about dubious banking transactions: Minister

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said Bangladesh Bank has been asked to inform intelligence agencies about dubious banking transactions to detect terror financing sources, reports UNB. The government also decided to monitor whether the corporate social responsibility (CSR) fund of the countrys banks is being used in terror financing, he said. The minister came up with the revelation while talking to reporters after a meeting of the committee on resisting militancy held at the Secretariat. He said educational institutions where involvement of militancy was earlier detected are now under watch, but the monitoring system for the institutions will be strengthened further. Director General of the Islamic Foundation Shamim Mohammad Afjal informed the meeting that so far the model Kutba (sermon), prepared by Islamic Foundation to raise public awareness against the militancy, was delivered in some 28.49 lakh mosques across the country, the minister told reporters. Besides, imams (Islamic clerics) in their speeches before the sermon speak against militancy, drug, terrorism in every mosque of the country, he quoted the Islamic Foundation DG saying as.