A Dhaka court has set 9 April for the submission of the probe report in the case relating to the 2016 Bangladesh Bank (BB) reserve heist.
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Jashita Islam fixed the new date after the investigation agency, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), failed to submit the report on Wednesday.
According to the case documents, unidentified hackers stole $101 million from BB’s accounts with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on 5 February 2016.
Of this sum, $81 million was transferred to four accounts with Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation in the Philippines, while $20 million was sent to a bank in Sri Lanka.
The transfer to Sri Lanka failed due to a spelling error made by the hackers. Bangladesh Bank later recovered around $15 million from the Philippines.
The case was filed on 15 March 2016 by former Deputy Director (Accounts and Budgeting) of Bangladesh Bank Zobayer Bin Huda at Motijheel Police Station.
