New date for enquiry report set

A Dhaka court on Sunday deferred again the date until November 20 for submitting the probe report in the reserve heist case filed by the Bangladesh Bank (BB).

The lawsuit was filed in connection with the stolen money from its central bank's account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Sadbir Yasir Ahsan Chowdhury, additional chief metropolitan magistrate of Dhaka, fixed the fresh date for report submission as the investigation officer failed it the same day, sources said.

Earlier on September 17, the court fixed October 20 to submit the report.

On February 04, 2016, hackers broke into BB's SWIFT system and generated 70 fake payment orders to the New York Fed amounting to $1.94 billion.

NY Fed's security system flagged the orders but five of them fell through and $101 million was released.

On March 15, 2016, BB joint director (accounts and budgeting department) Zobayer Bin Huda filed a case with Motijheel police station under the Money Laundering Prevention Act.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police is now investigating the case.

On March 22, 2016, the then metropolitan magistrate, Md Mahbubur Rahman, allowed CID to conduct forensic tests on the hard disks of three central bank computers.

The disks were seized from the BB headquarters following the reserve heist.