Court Correspondent :
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka yesterday asked the CID to submit the report in a case filed over the cyber heist of $101 million from Bangladesh Bank’s account in 2016, by March 13. The heist is one of the biggest cyber-crimes in the world.
So far, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) took more than 57 dates for completing the investigation into the matter.
Metropolitan Magistrate Shadbir Yasir Ahsan Chowdhury passed the order after CID Additional Superintendent Md Raihan Uddin Khan, and also the Investigation Officer of the case, failed to submit any report.
Unidentified international hackers stole $101 million from Bangladesh Bank’s account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York by using fake orders on the SWIFT payment system in February 2016.
Later, $81 million was sent to accounts in Manila-based Rizal Commercial Bank Corporation (RCBC), from where it disappeared into the casino industry in the Philippines. Most of the money transferred to the Philippines went to four personal accounts, owned by individuals.
It has been learned, Bangladesh has so far recovered around $18 million of the $81 million transferred to the Philippines. It was suspected that Dridex Malware was used for the attack.
