A Dhaka court on Monday set January 13 as the deadline for submitting a probe report in the 2016 Bangladesh Bank (BB) reserve heist case.
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Jashita Islam set a new date after the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) failed to submit the report on Monday.
According to court documents, unidentified hackers stole $101 million from the BB's accounts at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on February 5, 2016. $81 million was transferred to four RCBC accounts in the Philippines, with an additional $20 million going to a bank in Sri Lanka.
However, the transfer of $20 million to Sri Lanka was unsuccessful due to a spelling error by the hackers. Later, the BB was able to retrieve approximately $15 million from the Philippines.
On March 15, 2016, Zobayer Bin Huda, the then-Deputy Director (Accounts and Budgeting) of Bangladesh Bank, filed the case with the Motijheel Police Station.
