The date of submission of investigation report in the case of theft of money through SWIFT code by fraud from Bangladesh Bank’s reserves has been postponed. The report was scheduled to be submitted on Sunday, February 25. After the postponement, the court has fixed the new date of submission of investigation report on May 6.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury set a new date as the investigation agency CID did not submit the report. As a result, the report submission date has been delayed for 77 times.
It is known that on February 4, 2016, 100 million US dollars was stolen from the reserve account of Bangladesh Bank kept at the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States. Later, the hacker group sent the money to the Philippines through money laundering.
In this incident, on March 15, 2016, Deputy Director of Accounts and Budgeting Department of Bangladesh Bank Zobair bin Huda filed a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act at Motijheel Police Station. He filed a case under sections 54 and 379 of the Information and Technology Act-2006 along with section 4 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act-2012 (Amendment 2015) in Motijheel police station, accusing some people. The court directed the CID to investigate the case and submit a report the next day. Since then, the CID has not been able to submit the report even after taking 76 times in seven years.
