The plot was uncovered in late February by a Philippine newspaper. SPECIAL /
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- This after receiving heavy criticism for ‘hacking’ millionaire
the resignation Rahman was accepted by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in a meeting that both remained in the office of the leader Bangla in Dhaka
Rahman’s resignation 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 press 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.
The account at the Fed central bank Bangladeshi validated between 4 and 6 February transfers to Asian countries worth 101 million dollars, 81 million of them 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 Bangladesh Bank initially blamed the capital flight to foreign entities.
However, both the Federal Reserve and the SWIFT financial messaging company responded that their systems were not compromised and that the transfers were made based on the usual authentication protocols.
Police authorities in Bangladesh and computer experts now investigating whether 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 Finance Minister Abul M.A. Muhith, described Sunday as “very incompetent” performance of Bangladesh Bank and announced actions against an organization that manages more than 28 billion dollars in foreign currency in different banks in the world.
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