Philippines urges Bangladesh to share results of heist investigation


  • TECH
  • Monday, 05 Dec 2016

Big heist: Bangladesh's central bank confirmed that cybercriminals tried to withdraw US$951mil (RM3.9bil) from its US bank account.

MANILA: The Philippine government wants Bangladesh to share the findings of its investigation into how unknown hackers pulled off one of the world's largest cyber bank heists, to help speed up recovery of the stolen funds. 

Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez, who last week met with a Bangladesh delegation, said Manila "strongly recommended" Dhaka share the results of its investigation. He assured the visitors the government was doing it everything it could to find Bangladesh's missing money. 

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