A case has been filed at Motijheel Police Station over the embezzlement of savings certificate funds by hacking the Bangladesh Bank’s server. At the same time, the central bank has formed a probe committee to investigate the incident and transferred three officials from the savings certificate department.
On Thursday (October 30), Motijheel Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mezbah Uddin confirmed that a case has been filed regarding the theft of savings certificate funds. He stated that those involved will be brought under the law.
Earlier, on October 23, a customer purchased savings certificates worth Tk 2.5 million from the Motijheel office of Bangladesh Bank. The customer’s bank account is with Agrani Bank’s National Press Club branch. However, just four days later, the money was stolen.
It is believed that a group embezzled Tk 2.5 million in savings certificate funds by hacking into the Bangladesh Bank server and altering data. Initially, the stolen funds were transferred to the NRBC Bank’s Dinajpur sub-branch, and on the same day, the money was again transferred to the Shyamoli branch in Dhaka, from where the group withdrew it.
The same group reportedly planned to steal Tk 3 million from Dutch-Bangla Bank and Tk 2 million from NRB Bank accounts using a similar method, but both fraudulent transactions were successfully stopped by Bangladesh Bank.
Following the incident, the central bank has formed an investigation committee to look into the matter.
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