Bangladesh Bank reserve heist: Probe report deadline deferred for 92nd time
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Jashita Islam set 18 February as the new date for submitting the investigation report.
The submission of the investigation report in the Bangladesh Bank reserve heist case has been deferred for the 92nd time in the long-running probe.
Although the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) was scheduled to submit the report today (13 January), it failed to do so.
As a result, Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Jashita Islam set 18 February as the new date for submitting the investigation report.
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The information was confirmed by Rokonuzzaman, sub-inspector of the prosecution division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
It may be recalled that on 5 February 2016, hackers siphoned off $81 million from Bangladesh Bank's account held at the US Federal Reserve Bank. Investigators believe the money laundering was carried out with the assistance of a local syndicate operating inside the country.
Following the incident, on 15 March 2016, Zobayer Bin Huda, then deputy director of the Accounts and Budgeting Department of Bangladesh Bank, filed a case with Motijheel Police Station against unidentified persons under the Money Laundering Prevention Act.
The next day, on 16 March, the court handed over the investigation of the case to the CID, which has been conducting the probe ever since.
