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A Dhaka court on Tuesday set September 29 for the submission of a probe report in the case filed over the Bangladesh Bank (BB) reserve heist that took place in 2016.
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Jakir Hossain set the new date after the investigation agency, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), failed to submit the report today, BSS reports.
According to the case documents, unidentified hackers stole $101 million from BB's accounts with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in February 2016. Of the amount, $81 million was transferred to four accounts with RCBC in the Philippines and another $20 million to a bank in Sri Lanka.
However, the transfer of $20 million to Sri Lanka failed because of a spelling error by the hackers. Later, BB 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.