Swiss Envoy Has to Retract Her Statement: High Court

The Swiss ambassador to Bangladesh Nathalie Chuard has to withdraw the statement that the Bangladesh government did not ask for any specific information on the Swiss bank accounts of its citizens. The High Court commented that his statement has embarrassed the state.

The high court bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Khizir Hayat made this comment on Sunday (August 14).

The High Court said, how the ambassador said that the government did not ask for any specific information on the Swiss bank accounts of its citizens- is not understandable to us.

At that time, the High Court directed the lawyer of the state party and the ACC to say that the information presented by them proves that the statement of the ambassador is contradictory.

Before this, the report of BFIU, Bangladesh's financial intelligence, came to the High Court on Sunday morning. According to the report, various information regarding the money deposited by Bangladeshis in different banks in Switzerland has been requested from the country's financial intelligence agency. BFIU lastly asked the organization for this information on June 17.