Chinese man in Manila given millions from Bangladesh heist: lawmaker

The logo of the RCBC bank is seen at the RCBC building in Manila's financial district on March 11, 2016. A Philippine bank said it is investigating an 81 million USD deposit after Bangladesh accused Chinese hackers of stealing from a US account and illegally moving the funds online to the Philippines and Sri Lanka. / AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELIS

MANILA: More than US$30mil (RM123.56mil) of the money hackers stole from the Bangladesh central bank's account at the New York Fed was handed over in cash to an ethnic Chinese man in Manila, a Philippines senator looking into the suspected laundering scheme said. 

The cash deliveries over several days from a foreign exchange broker were made up of 600 million pesos (RM138.96mil) and around US$18mil (RM74.13mil), which altogether would have meant a haul of at least 780,000 banknotes.