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$1.46cr now in BB account

Published : 01 Mar 2017, 15:54

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Some $1.46 crore and 30 thousand of the heist money have been credited with the Bangladesh Bank account on Monday and Tuesday. General Manager of Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit, Debo Proshad Devnath, has confirmed this to Samakal today.

Bangladesh Bank is expected to get back more US$30 million heisted reserved from the Philippines soon. "Bangladesh has already received approximately $15.25 million from the Philippines. We are making all sorts of efforts to recover the whole money. We are expecting to get back more $30 million which now remains confiscated," BB's Deputy Governor Abu Hena Mohd. Razee Hassan told a news briefing yesterday, according to BSS report. He also said a delegation, which be led by Law. Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq, will go to the Philippine this month and hoped the process of recovering the reserve heist money will be accelerated further. With the US$15.25 million, the total recovered amount has stood at $35.25 million. Earlier, BB brought back $20 million from Sri Lanka. On November 7, a BB delegation headed by Debaprosad Debnath, general manager of the bank's Financial Intelligence Unit, went to Manila to work on moving back the $15.25 million. In October, BB filed an 'execution suit' with the authorities in Manila to send back the recovered $15.25 million. The Manila court cleared the 'execution suit' and asked the authority concerned to complete the whole procedures of sending back the money within the next 30. In September, the Philippines National Capital Judicial Region asked the country's central bank-the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to send back the money as it adjudged that Bangladesh Bank was the rightful owner of around $15.25 million surrendered by casino boss Kim Wong and his Eastern Hawaii Leisure Company .