Staff Correspondent

A list of 252 bureaucrats, police and government officials who have bought houses in the United States by laundering the country's money has been detected .

The list has been sent to the top level of the government. Analyzing this list, it is found that among these 252 people, at least 30-35 are police OCs (Inspectors). Some of them have more than one houses.

Who bought a house in the United States?

An intelligence agency was investigating this matter for several months. That report is now out. All of them laundered money out of the country and took it to the United States. Elite have demanded action against them.

Apart from government secretary rank officials, top police officials are also in this list. Those who are in important responsibilities as trustees of the government.

Not only during the tenure of this government, but also during the previous governments, government officials including bureaucrats, police officers have smuggled money abroad. Even then, the list of hundreds of government officials and employees having assets abroad was published. Many of them are now abroad

Staying in every house and spreading propaganda against the country. The current government has undertaken massive development activities. As a result, they do not need to worry about public votes. But because of these dishonest officials, the Prime Minister has to face many questions at home and abroad.

The star Shamim Haider Patwari published the list of bureaucrats who have houses and cars abroad in the Parliament last January. Then he said, the media came out that the bureaucrats have a lot of wealth abroad.

The list of bureaucrats who have houses and cars abroad should be disclosed in Parliament. They should be fired and brought to justice. This member of parliament commented that they should be hanged.

Talking to Ittefaq, a police inspector (OC) who has a home abroad said, 'We have to pay a bribe of Tk 20 to 50 lakh to get a posting in a police station. Still can't stay for a year. Now what do we have to do without making money? When will I serve people?

In this again there is political lobbying. Now if you commit corruption or get involved in corruption then you have to take security preventive measures. If the government changes, what is the guarantee that I will be able to work in the country where I live? As a result, I have to make all kinds of arrangements to stay abroad in advance. We have to send the wife and children there in advance and arrange for the entire family to leave, including citizenship.

Dhaka University's social welfare and research institute associate professor and social crime expert. Tauhidul Haque said, "Such information is very worrying for us. They looted people's money or money of various development projects and took it abroad. If those who work for the welfare of the people of the society are busy with their own development, how will the people of the country develop?

People lose respect for such news when it comes in the media. Now the government should take legal action against those who bought assets abroad by confiscating the assets in favor of the state. Now since this money is abroad, it is difficult to bring it back from there.

But the government should try to sell those assets and bring money to the country. Two years ago a report was published, it was said that 6 thousand 309 million dollars were smuggled out of Bangladesh in 10 years (2006 to 2015) by concealing the actual data of imports and exports.

According to the current exchange rate, the amount in Bangladeshi currency is about 5 lakh and fifty thousand crores. Washington-based research institute Global Financial Integrity (GFI) published this information on money laundering. According to the GFI, in 2015, 5.9 billion dollars or 50 thousand crore taka were smuggled from Bangladesh.

A senior government official owns two houses in New York, USA. The officer's brothers looked after that house. According to a report, more than half of bureaucrats' children study abroad. Also, the sons and daughters of a large part of the police officers study abroad.

Where they study, they send their wives and buy houses to settle permanently. Not only the United States, but Canada, Many officials have bought houses in Australia, Malaysia, Thailand and even India. Recently a police officer's house in India was taken over by his caretaker relatives. He is trying to recover the house by pressuring the relatives staying in the country house of that relative.

The government had given an opportunity to bring the smuggled money to the country in the last financial year. Even though that period ended on June 30, no one has brought back the money smuggled in a year.

Through this, an initiative of the government ended as fruitless without any response. After independence, for the first time in the country, money laundered in the budget was allowed to be brought back without question; But there was no response to this initiative. With the economic development of the country Various studies have revealed that a huge amount of money is being smuggled. It is said that 'Begum Para' was built in Canada with money smuggled out of the country. Similarly, Bangladeshis are in the top five in the list of second home programs in Malaysia. Apart from this, Bangladeshi money is also in Dubai.

In the parliament session of last January, Jatiya Party MP Mujibul Haque Chunnu said that the news published in the media about the houses, cars and property of Bangladeshis abroad should be investigated whether it is true or not. He said, lately I have been noticing that money laundering, buying flats abroad is being published in various media including newspapers, news is coming.

I saw our foreign secretary saying that our Bangladeshi people who live in different countries including America, Canada, England are selling the property of this country and taking money.

Not taking it in a legitimate way. We have no objection if foreigners living in Europe-America sell their property and take money legally. But why will the money go to the illegal way?