During the 10 months from July 2023 to April this year, foreign nationals living in Bangladesh took 130.58 million US dollars from their income to their respective countries.
Finance Minister Abul Hasan Mahmud Ali gave this information in response to a written question of Faridpur-3 Constituent Member of Parliament Abdul Quader Azad in the 2024-25 budget session of the Jatiya Sangsad on Monday (June 24).
Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury presided over the session.
The finance minister said that the annual income information of foreign nationals living in Bangladesh is not stored in Bangladesh Bank.
Without citing any source, the finance minister said that from July 2023 to April this year, foreign nationals living in Bangladesh took 130.58 million US dollars from their income to their respective countries.
Giving the information about the number of dollars taken by the citizens of any country, the Finance Minister said that the citizens of India received 50.60 million dollars, the citizens of China received 14.56 million dollars, the citizens of Sri Lanka received 12.71 million dollars, the citizens of Japan received 6.89 million dollars, the citizens of Korea received 6.21 million dollars, citizens of Thailand 5.30 million dollars, citizens of the United Kingdom 3.59 million dollars, citizens of Pakistan 3.24 million dollars, citizens of the United States 3.17 million dollars, citizens of Malaysia 2.40 million dollars, citizens of other countries 21.92 million dollars. They took the dollar to their countries.
In response to another question of MP Abdul Latif, Finance Minister Abul Hasan Mahmud Ali told the Parliament that the Ministry of Finance is taking various steps to control inflation.
The underlying causes of the ongoing crisis of inflation are uncertainty in the supply of global commodity markets, depreciation of the currency against the US dollar and supply chain failures in domestic markets.
He mentioned that the government has taken multifaceted steps to overcome the economic crisis to keep the liquid price within the purchasing power of the common people.