Staff Reporter
Internet banking, international credit card and mobile phone recharge cards emerged as new windows of money laundering with the expansion of technology-based transactions in the country.
A meeting of the Anti-Money Laundering Task Force at Bangladesh Bank yesterday advised the commercial banks to remain alert to prevent money laundering through the new windows, meeting sources said.
Bangladesh Bank executive director Abul Quashem chaired the task force meeting which was attended by representatives from the Task Force member-bodies including ministries of Finance, Home and Commerce, National Board of Revenue (NBR), commercial banks, intelligence agencies and police were present.
As for money laundering through international credit cards, holders are supposed to deposit the same amount of foreign currencies to their local bank accounts against what they had spent abroad.
But some of them were depositing the amount through purchasing the foreign currencies from the kerb market, according to allegations raised at the meeting.
Meeting sources said the meeting also decided to introduce a uniform (know-your-customer) KYC form to make account opening and operating easy for the bank clients.
Commercial banks alleged at the meeting that their clients were facing difficulties to comply with the KYC due to different types of forms being used by different banks. The central bank will send a draft of uniform KYC form to the commercial banks for their opinion in this regard.
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