Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury has once again ordered the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to submit the investigation report of the Bangladesh Bank reserve theft case by November 9. The judge gave this order as Additional Superintendent of Police and Investigation Officer Raihan Uddin Khan did not submit the investigation report by today.
On February 4, 2016, 10 crore 10 lakh 1 thousand 623 dollars were stolen from Bangladesh Bank through computer hacking. The money was held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. From there, at least US$81 billion was transferred to the accounts of the Manila-based RCBC from where it was spent in the casinos in the Philippines.
Bangladesh Bank Deputy Director (Accounts and Budget) Zobair bin Huda filed a case at Motijheel police station on March 15 of that year. He filed the case under Section 54 and Section 379 of Information and Technology Act-2006 along with Section 4 of Prevention of Money Laundering Act-2012 (Amendment 2015) at Motijheel police station. The CID has taken a total of 74 times till date to complete the investigation of the cases filed.
On February 1 of this year, Bangladesh Bank filed a case against Rizal Bank in the US court to recover the stolen $66 million. There were also many other cases of theft in Manila. Bangladeshi officials have testified in some of them. Bangladesh also testified in the case against the officials of RCBC Bank of the Philippines.
