Staff Reporter :
Fazle Kabir, new governor of Bangladesh Bank (BB), joined office on Sunday morning.
He joined BB four days after he was appointed governor of the central bank by the government.
Fazle Kabir returned home from New York on Thursday.
“My first work will be to take initiatives to bring back the $81 million stolen fund of BB which the hackers took away from the account of the bank held with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York,” the new BB
governor said while talking to reporters.
He added, “We will have to find out if there is any technical problem in BB’s computer system and fix it so that such incidents are not happen again.”
Besides, restoring the confidence of my new colleagues will be one of my main priorities, so that they can work without fear, he said.
The new BB governor said he will also work according to the recommendations given by the three-member probe committee formed by the government.
Fazle Kabir was serving Sonali Bank as Chairman. Later, he resigned from the post after being appointed as the governor. Earlier in the morning, his former office Sonali Bank arranged a farewell ceremony in his honour at the bank at Motijheel in Dhaka.
Atiur Rahman, on March 15, resigned from his post as the governor over the $101 million cyber heist from BB’s account with Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
The government on March 16 appointed him the new governor of BB.
