Muhith asks CID to submit report on BB reserve heist

Finance minister AMA Muhith on Sunday said he asked the Criminal Investigation Department to submit their investigation report on the heist of country’s central bank reserve soon as the government expects to file a law suit to recover the remaining portion of the stolen money.

The case is expected to be filed in April in a court in New York, he told reporters after a meeting at secretariat.

Bangladesh Bank is required to file the case as it could not bring back around 65 million US dollar from Manila where the suspected hackers laundered 81 million US dollar stolen money from the Bangladesh Bank account with in the US Federal Reserve in New York in February 2016

So far, Manila returned US 15 million dollar.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net