Ruling Awami League on Saturday termed the BNP’s accusation against them of looting Tk two lakh crore from banking sector as baseless.
“Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, the Secretary General of the BNP alleged that Tk 2 lakh crore was looted from banking sector during the Awami League’s nine
year tenure is totally baseless. He should show all documents regarding this or should apologize to the nation,” Dr. Abdur Razzak, the Presidium Member of AL said it while addressing a press conference at the Party Chief Sheikh Hasina’s Dhanmondi office.
Dr. Abdur Razzak said, “There are 32 cases under investigation of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). Most of those are against the BNP leaders. It proves that they are most corrupt. The party Chief Khaleda Zia and her son Tarique Rahman are facing jail terms.”
BNP brought baseless allegations against AL of looting huge money from bank and other financial sectors aiming to cover their plundering and corrupt politics, the AL leader added.
“The cultures of bank looting and defaulting of loan started during BNP’s tenure. Khaleda Zia’s sons Tarique Rahman and Arafat Rahman Koko with their business partner Giasuddin Mamun and her brother Sayeed Iskandar took Tk 980 crore as loan showing false documents of 15 enterprises including Dandy Dyeing, Khamba Limited and One Spinning. They managed to get waiver of all of those loans with interests abusing power,” Dr. Abdur Razzak said.
He said, “We have nothing to do in this regard because the loan and its waiver were conducted by the highest position of the state.”
He said, such type of corruption by any member of the Prime Minister’s family is rare in the world.
The AL leader said the present government has given highest importance to the development and that is why the economy of the country is progressing fast.
Awami League Joint-General Secretaries Mahbubul Alam Hanif and Md. Abdur Rahman, Organizing Secretary AFM Bahauddin Nasim and Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Naofel, Office Secretary Abdus Sobhan Golap, Agriculture and Cooperative Affair Secretary Faridunnahar Laily, Liberation War Affairs Secretary Mrinal Kanti Das, Information and Research Secretary Afzal Hossain, Cultural Secretary Asim Kumar Ukil, Forest and Environment Secretary Delwar Hossain, Assistant Publicity Secretary Aminul Islam Amin, Assistant Office Secretary Biplob Barua, Executive Member Marufa Akhter Poppy, among others, were present.
