DHAKA, April 17, 2025 (BSS) - A Dhaka court here today set May 18 as the new deadline for submitting the probe report in the Bangladesh Bank reserve heist case of 2016.
 
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Wahiduzzaman set the date as the investigation agency Criminal Investigation Department (CID), failed to submit the report today.

Hackers' stole $101m from BB's accounts with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in February 2016. Of the amount, $81 million was transferred to four accounts with RCBC in the Philippines and another $20 million to a bank in Sri Lanka. But the transfer of $20 million to Sri Lanka failed because of a spelling error by the hackers.

Later, Bangladesh Bank managed to retrieve about $15 million from the Philippines.
 
Then Bangladesh Bank Deputy Director (accounts and budgeting) Zobayer Bin Huda filed the case with Motijheel Police Station on March 15, 2016.