Bangladesh central bank executives dismissed after millionaire “hacking” – Noticias24

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(Dhaka, March 15. EFE) . – Governor of Bangladesh Bank (central), Atiur Rahman, resigned today and three of its executives were removed from office between heavy criticism after suffering in February this organism computer hacking of 101 million dollars in his account of the Federal reserve Bank of New York k (Fed).

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the resignation of Rahman was accepted by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in a meeting that both remained in the office of the Bangladeshi leader in Dhaka, according to official sources quoted by the agency UNB.

the governor, who returned yesterday from a trip to India, justified today its silence in recent days in the “interest of the country” in his first interaction with the media on his return, and equated the “hack” that undermined the bank account to “a terrorist attack” .

“anything I did was in the interest of the country. I did not want the incident created panic in the banking sector, “he said.

Following the resignation of the governor, the finance minister of China, Abul Maal A. Muhith announced the dismissal of two deputy governors of the bank Central, Naznin Sultana and Abul Kashem, as recorded by the Bangladeshi daily Dhaka Tribune.

Muhith had announced last Sunday action against the bank after describing as “very incompetent” management.

the Ministry of Bangladeshi Public Administration informed the secretary of the Division of Banking and Finance of the entity, Aslam Alam, was appointed “manager in special service”, which means remove him from office to assign him to a position of lesser rank.

the account at the Federal Reserve Bank of Bangladesh validated between 4 and 6 February transfers to Asian countries worth 101 million dollars, of which 81 million are still out of control, mainly in accounts Philippines or channeled through casinos.

the plot was uncovered in late February by a Philippine newspaper and the Bank initially blamed the capital flight to foreign entities.

No But both the Federal Reserve and the company financial messaging SWIFT responded that their systems were not compromised and that the transfers were made based on the usual authentication protocols.

police authorities and computer experts in Bangladesh investigate now if it was only an external cyber attack or if the pirates were using the credentials of the central bank with some kind of internal collaboration.

the Bangladesh Bank manages more than 28,000 million dollars in foreign currency in different banks in the world.