Bangladesh suppressing heist probe info from 'foreign perpetrators'

Manila

BANGLADESH'S central bank has said it is withholding findings of investigations into the cyber theft of US$81 million from its account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to avoid tipping off the "foreign perpetrators" of the hack.

Bangladesh Bank lawyer Ajmalul Hossain was responding to comments by Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) in the Philippines - through which the stolen money was routed before disappearing into Manila's casino industry - that the central bank in Dhaka was wary of releasing reports that could implicate its own officials.