$49.65b siphoned off from Bangladesh in 6 years

Over US$49.65 billion has gone out of Bangladesh through trade-based illicit financial flows (IFFs) only in six years, according to an international watchdog's findings on the money laundering between 2009 and 2015. The Global Financial Integrity (GFI) in its latest report, published on December 16, calculates the country figure from the