Bangladesh Bank reserve heist: Probe report delayed for 98th time
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Joshita Islam set the new date after the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), scheduled to submit the report today, failed to do so.
A Dhaka court has set 19 October as the new date for submitting the investigation report in the Bangladesh Bank reserve heist case, with the deadline being pushed back for the 98th time today (14 September).
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Joshita Islam set the new date after the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), scheduled to submit the report today, failed to do so.
On 5 February 2016, hackers stole $81 million from Bangladesh Bank's account with the US Federal Reserve Bank.
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Investigators suspect a group inside Bangladesh helped launder the money.
On 15 March 2016, Zubair Bin Huda, deputy director of Bangladesh Bank's Accounts and Budgeting Department, filed a case at Motijheel Police Station against unidentified persons under the Money Laundering Prevention Act.
A court handed over the investigation to the CID on 16 March 2016.
The CID has been investigating the case since then.
