BB cyber heist: CID asked to submit probe report by Oct 28

Staff Correspondent: A Dhaka court yesterday asked Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to submit the probe report in the Bangladesh Bank cyber heist case by October 28.
Metropolitan Magistrate Mosharraf Hossain passed the order after Raihan Uddin Khan, additional superintendent of police and also investigation officer of the case, failed to submit the probe report by yesterday.
CID has now taken 80 dates to complete its probe into the case filed over the heist of $101 million from Bangladesh Bank’s account with Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 2016. On July 9, another Dhaka court asked CID to submit the probe report on the case by September 4.
At least $81 million was transferred to the accounts in Manila-based RCBC, from where it disappeared into the casinos of Philippines.
Bangladesh Bank Deputy Director (Accounts and Budgeting) Zobayer Bin Huda filed the case with Motijheel Police Station on March 15, 2016.
So far, Bangladesh retrieved $15 million from RCBC and recovered another $20 million sent to a bank in Sri Lanka.
On February 1, 2022, Bangladesh Bank sued Rizal Bank in US court in order to recover $66m of stolen funds.