Submission of reserve heist probe report deferred again (2019-09-18)

A Dhaka court on Tuesday deferred again the date for submitting the investigation report on a case filed in connection with the stolen money from Bangladesh Bank's (BB) account with Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sadbir Yasir Ahsan Chowdhury fixed October 20 for submitting the report as the investigation officer of the case didn't submit it on Tuesday.

On February 04 in 2016, hackers broke into the central bank's system and generated 70 fake payment orders to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York amounting to $1.94 billion.

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

On March 15 in 2016, Joint Director of Accounts and Budgeting Department of BB Zobayer Bin Huda filed a case with the Motijheel Police Station under the Money Laundering Prevention Act. Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is now investigating the case.

Then Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mahbubur Rahman on March 22, 2016 allowed CID to conduct forensic tests on seized hard disks of three BB computers.