He further said, “Bangladesh Bank could take charge of these banks by removing the board of directors and managing committee on an emergency basis. The faith of the depositors’ will be restored then. If assistance is given in this way instead of taking any action, owners of other banks will also be encouraged to commit such irregularities.”
Out of 61 banks in the country now, 10 are Islamic banks. Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited is the largest among them with around Tk 150,000 crore deposit.
Other Islamic banks are First Security Islamic Bank, Union Bank, Social Islami Bank, Global Islami Bank, Al-Arafah Bank, Exim Bank, Shahjalal Bank, Standard Bank and ICB Islamic Bank.
Besides this, Islamic banking service is provided in different branches of nine traditional banks while Islamic banking service is available at different sections of 13 banks.
