Bangladesh: Dhaka sought info but Swiss authorities did not reply, FM

DHAKA, 13 August 2022, (TON): Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen “Bangladesh sought information on the deposits of Bangladeshi money in the Swiss banks, but the Swiss side did not respond to the query.”

Momen said this after his conversation on the issue with Bangladesh Bank governor Abdur Rouf Talukder and finance secretary Fatima Yasmin.

The foreign minister said that he advised the governor and the finance ministry to come up with the statements as confusion arose following some media reports quoting  the ambassador of Switzerland to Bangladesh, Nathalie Chuard.

he said “Let’s know first from the statements from the governor and the finance ministry.”

Momen said “it was not true that Bangladesh did not seek information from Switzerland.”

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