6 May 2024
Bangladesh Bank cyber heist: CID takes 78th date to complete probe
A Dhaka court has directed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to submit its probe report by July 9 in the Bangladesh Bank cyber heist case involving the theft of $101 million in 2016. CID has now taken 78 dates to complete the investigation into the case filed after $81 million was transferred from Bangladesh Bank’s New York account to Manila, from where most of it went missing. So far, Bangladesh has recovered $35 million of the stolen funds.