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BB reserve heist report deferred for 97th time

Published : Sunday, 9 August, 2026 at 4:24 PM

Court Correspondent

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The submission of the investigation report in the Bangladesh Bank reserve heist case has been deferred for the 97th time, with the court setting September 14 as the new date.

The report was scheduled to be submitted Sunday before Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sefatullah.

However, CID police failed to submit it, prompting the court to grant another extension.

Previously on February 5, 2016, hackers targeted $101 million from Bangladesh Bank.

However, they were able to steal $81 million with the US Federal Reserve through fraudulent SWIFT transactions. The money was transferred to the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) in the Philippines and laundered through several casinos.

The case was filed with Motijheel Police Station on March 15, 2016, under the Money Laundering Prevention Act. The CID has been investigating the case but has repeatedly failed to submit its report.

Philippine authorities later recovered $15 million and handed it over to Bangladesh, while about $66.4 million remains unrecovered.

In 2019, Bangladesh Bank filed a lawsuit in a New York court seeking recovery of the stolen funds. A case against Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) was later dismissed by a New York court in April 2022 on jurisdictional grounds.

Bangladesh Bank subsequently filed another case in a court with proper jurisdiction.

-MAL/SA

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