A Dhaka court has set 14 September as a new date for filing the investigation report in the case over the theft from Bangladesh Bank’s reserves. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sefatullah set the date after the investigating agency, the police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID), again failed to submit the report — the 97th time the deadline has been pushed back, according to the court’s prosecution section.
On 5 February 2016, 81 million dollars (8 crore 10 lakh dollars) was fraudulently stolen from Bangladesh Bank’s account at the US Federal Reserve Bank via SWIFT and sent to the Philippines. Investigators believe a hacker group laundered the reserve money with the help of a ring inside the country.
On 15 March that year, Zobayer Bin Huda, deputy director of Bangladesh Bank’s accounts and budgeting department, filed a case against unidentified people at Motijheel police station under the money-laundering and information-technology laws and the penal code. But even after nine years, those involved in laundering the reserves have not been identified.
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