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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Rob Davies

‘My target is those who have looted my banks’: Bangladesh’s bank governor chases vanished assets

Ahsan Mansur siiting in a blue suit in a glass-walled boardroom
Mansur has come out of retirement to track down missing funds for Dhaka’s transitional government. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

Diminutive and softly spoken, Dr Ahsan Mansur does not project the image of a man able to strike fear into the hearts of hardened kleptocrats.

Yet Bangladesh’s central bank governor has rattled someone powerful, if the events of recent days are anything to go by.

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