A court in Dhaka has deferred for the 66th time the submission of the probe report in a case filed over the $101 million heist from the Bangladesh Bank’s reserve.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Arafatul Rakib asked the Criminal Investigation Department to submit the report by November 16 after Additional Superintendent of Police Raihan Uddin Khan, the investigating officer, failed to submit it in court on Sunday.
Hackers stole $101 million from the Bangladesh Bank’s account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in February 2016.
Of the stolen amount, $81 million was transferred to four accounts with RCBC in Manila and another $20 million to a bank in Sri Lanka.
But the transfer of $20 million to Sri Lanka failed due to a spelling error by the hackers.
Later, the central bank of Bangladesh was able to retrieve only about $15 million from the Philippines.
On March 15 that year, Bangladesh Bank Joint Director M Jubayer Bin Huda lodged the case at Motijheel police station against unidentified people.
