The court has postponed the date of submission of the investigation report in the case of theft of reserves of Bangladesh Bank to August 9. 96 times delayed report submission day.
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Joshita Islam was scheduled to file the case report on Thursday (July 2). But on this day, the investigation agency CID police could not file the report. For this reason, the court fixed August 9 as the next day for submitting the report. SI Rokunuzzaman of the prosecution department confirmed this information.
On February 5, 2016, 80 million dollars of Bangladesh Bank was stolen from the United States Federal Reserve Bank through SWIFT code. The transferred money was sent to the Philippines. The people involved thought that this money was smuggled with the help of a gang within the country.
Later, on March 15 of that year, Jubair Bin Huda, Joint Director of Accounts and Budgeting Department of Bangladesh Bank, filed a case at Motijheel Police Station in the capital; No one was directly accused in the case of Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
Bangladesh Bank’s lost $81 million went to three casinos in the form of Philippine pesos, the local currency. Of this, the Philippine government recovered one and a half million dollars from the owner of a casino and explained to the Bangladesh government, but the remaining 66.4 million dollars was not found.
In 2019, three years after the theft of the reserve, Bangladesh Bank filed a case in New York’s Manhattan Southern District Court to recover the money.
RCBC applied to dismiss the case. In April 2022, a New York court dismissed Bangladesh Bank’s case against RCBC.
The judgment said that the court did not have ‘adequate jurisdiction’ to try the case. It was then informed by the central bank that Bangladesh Bank filed a case in New York’s ‘jurisdictional’ court.
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