Dhaka, Aug. 30 -- Prime Minister's economic and planning adviser Prof Dr Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir has said the country's market system is not being allowed to function properly like a market and that a major nexus in the financial sector had facilitated economic crimes.

"Our market is captured. The market is not being allowed to function as a market, and those who are supposed to regulate the market are actually becoming involved in this corruption. There are no price takers here; everyone is acting as a price maker," he said.

He made the remarks as the chief guest at a book-launching ceremony titled Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation at Dhaka University today.

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