Published: 01:03 AM, 19 June 2026
CID accuses 64 individuals over BB reserve heist
The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of Bangladesh Police finally submitted a draft charge sheet regarding the sensational Bangladesh Bank's reserve-heist case to the Attorney General Office seeking its legal opinion. In the drafted charge sheet, the above probe agency officially named 64 suspects, including Bangladeshi and foreign individuals and institutions, in the country's largest ever financial heist that occurred more than 10 years ago. The agency framed charges against 10 Bangladeshi nationals, including the then Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Dr. Atiur Rahman in connection with the heist.
Among other nine Bangladeshis, eight are former and current BB officials - KM Abdul Wadud, Shuvankar Saha, Rezaul Karim, Zubair Bin Huda, AFM Asaduzzaman, Mezbaul Haque, Abul Kashem and Sultan Masud Ahmed. The rest is Anis A Khan, a former chairman of the Association of Bankers Bangladesh (ABB). Of the BB officials, Zubair Bin Huda is still serving the central bank as an additional director. Zubair Bin Huda filed a case with Motijheel Police Station after 39 days of the heist on behalf of the central bank. Others have meanwhile retired from their jobs. The foreigners include 36 from the Philippines Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC), eight from Sri Lanka, four from India, three from China, two from North Korea and one from Japan. Following a 10 years long investigation, the nearly 10,000-page charge sheet has
been sent to the Attorney General for legal review. It may be recalled that on 5 February 2016 hackers stole $101 million from Bangladesh Bank's reserves held with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, USA.
Unidentified perpetrators reportedly sent fraudulent instructions through the SWIFT payment system to siphon off the funds. Of that amount, an estimated $81 million was transferred to the casinos in the Philippines. The remaining $20 million that was wired to Sri Lanka during the cyber heist was fully recovered by the central bank.
