NEW YORK: US prosecutors are building potential cases that would accuse North Korea of directing the theft of US$81mil from Bangladesh Bank’s account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last year, and that would charge alleged Chinese middlemen, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) believed that North Korea is responsible for the heist, an official briefed on the probe told Reuters.
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