UNB, Dhaka :Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Tuesday told Parliament that action will be taken against the culprits behind the Basic Bank scam once the probe report by its board of directors is available.”We’ve already formed a new board of directors for Basic Bank. They’ ll place a report on the scam. Appropriate action will be taken once the report is on hand,” he said taking part in discussion over cut-motions before the passage of the national budget for fiscal 2015-16.The minister said, they have already taken some measures so that culprits behind the Basic Bank scam cannot flee the country. Mentioning that liquidity crisis created in Sonali Bank and Basic Bank during his government regime, he said, “We face problem when liquidity crisis appears. We’ve taken adequate measures to remove the crisis.”Noting that some Sonali Bank officials are accused in the bank forgery, Muhith said a deputy general manager of Sonali Bank was taken to jail who later died there, but a managing director could not be taken to jail.
