The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka yesterday deferred submission of the probe report in Bangladesh Bank’s cyber heist case to January 23 of next year.
Magistrate Mohammad Jasim of the CMM Court fixed the new date as CID’s Investigation Officer could
not submit the report on Monday. On February 4, 2016, hackers stole $ 101 million from Bangladesh Bank’s account maintained with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Of the amount, $ 81 million was transferred to four accounts with RCBC in Manila and another $ 20 million in a bank in Sri Lanka.
But, the transfer of $ 20 million to Sri Lanka got foiled because of a spelling error by the hackers. Later, the central bank of the country was able to retrieve about $ 15 million from the Philippines.
On March 15, 2016, Deputy Director Jobayer Bin Huda of Accounts and Budgeting Department of Bangladesh Bank, lodged the case with Motijheel Police Station of the city. Later, on first February of this year, Bangladesh Bank filed another case against Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) of Philippines, with a court in the United States of America over the heist of $ 81 million from Bangladesh Bank (BB) reserve.
However, on March 6, RCBC of Philippines filed a defamation case against Bangladesh Bank for “vicious” public attacks in connection with an $ 81 million cyber heist.
