Dhaka: The Customs Intelligence Directorate summoned sixteen cars of World Bank’s Bangladesh branch and those vehicles’ record books on charges of exploiting duty-free facilities.

Customs Intelligence Directorate Director General Dr Moinul Islam Khan on Wednesday morning told NTV Online sixteen cars, their passbooks, and documents were summoned on charges of tax evasion.

He said citizens of several countries including Koreans are working in Bangladesh branch of World Bank. They enjoyed the facility of using duty-free vehicles and were asked to use documents and passbooks for keeping records of their movements.

However, before leaving the country, the foreign employees of World Bank did not submit their cars, passbooks, and documents. So, the World Bank Country Director was asked to hand over the cars and the documents, said the customs intelligence official.

The Customs Intelligence Directorate requested the country director to assistance the authorities for probing the matter.