epa05238467 A handout picture made available by the Central Bank of the Philippines on 01 April 2016 shows Filipno Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) Secretariat Executive Director Julia Bacay-Abad (2-L) and AMLC Member and Insurance Commissioner Emmanuel Dooc (2-R) opening a bag containing US dollars that was returned by Chinese casino junket operator Kam Sin Wong (unseen) inside Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas in Manila, Philippines, 31 March 2016. According to reports, the Philippine Senate is conducting an inquiry into the alleged laundering of 100 million US dollars that was hacked from the US account of Bangladesh's central bank. 81 of the 100 million US dollars in stolen money was tracked to multiple accounts at the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC). EPA/JASON ARLAN RAVA / HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES
MANILA: A Philippine senator said that Chinese hackers were likely to have pulled off one of the world's biggest cyber heists at the Bangladesh central bank, citing the network of Chinese people involved in the routing of the stolen funds through Manila.
Unidentified hackers infiltrated the computers at Bangladesh Bank in early February and tried to transfer a total of US$951mil (RM3.73bil) from its account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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