A Dhaka court today fixed July 2 as the new date for submitting the probe report in the case filed over the 2016 Bangladesh Bank reserve heist.
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Wahiduzzaman set the date after the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which is investigating the case, failed to submit the report within the scheduled time.
In February 2016, hackers stole $101 million from Bangladesh Bank’s accounts with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Of the stolen amount, $81 million was transferred to four accounts at Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) in the Philippines, while an attempt to send $20 million to a Sri Lankan bank failed due to a spelling error in the instructions made by the hackers, reports BSS.
Following the heist, Bangladesh Bank managed to recover around $15 million from the Philippines.
Zobayer Bin Huda, then Deputy Director of the central bank's accounts and budgeting department, filed the case with Motijheel Police Station on March 15, 2016.
