The proposal from Jatiya Party lawmaker Moshiur Rahman Ranga, made at the committee meeting at Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Bhaban, was for forming a body to investigate the allegations. Ranga also suggested for the proposed probe team to look into some incidents of fake note recovery at the BB.

But Finance Minister M Saifur Rahman rejected the proposal right away while Finance Secretary Zakir Hossain Khan argued that forming such a probe body would only worsen the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund's bad impressions about corrupt practices in Bangladesh, meeting sources said.

In course of the meeting, a member alleged it was due to incompetence of National Board of Revenue (NBR) that the government could not achieve its revenue collection target of Tk 11,703 crore for the July-December half of the current fiscal year.

Presided over by committee chairman Mushfiqur Rahman, the meeting recommended for preparing a list of such NBR officials who were working at the same place for more than three years.

The committee also decided to visit Chittagong Customs House sometime soon to inspect its operations.