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BB reserve heist probe report submission deferred again

| Updated: January 03, 2023 16:52:57


BB reserve heist probe report submission deferred again

A court has asked the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the police to submit the probe report in the Bangladesh Bank reserve heist case by February 14 this year.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury gave the order as CID, the investigation agency in the case, failed to submit the report on Sunday, the scheduled date for report submission, reports BSS.

With the latest one, the investigation agency has so far taken 69th dates to complete its probe into the case.

Hackers stole $101m from Bangladesh Bank's accounts with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York through the SWIFT code on February 5, 2016. Of the amount, $81 million was transferred to four accounts with RCBC in Manila and another $20 million to a bank in Sri Lanka.

But the transfer of $20 million to Sri Lanka failed because of a spelling error by the hackers. Later, Bangladesh Bank was able to retrieve about $15 million from the Philippines.

Bangladesh Bank Deputy Director (accounts and budgeting) Zobayer Bin Huda filed the case with Motijheel Police Station on March 15, 2016.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is now probing the case.

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