A Dhaka court on Thursday ordered Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to submit the probe report in Bangladesh Bank cyber heist case by December 31.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury passed the order.
Earlier Raihan Uddin Khan, additional superintendent of police, who is also investigation officer of the case, could not to submit the probe report by November 9.
Till now CID took 75 dates to complete its probe into the case filed over the heist of $101 million from Bangladesh Bank's account with Federal Reserve Bank of New York in February 2016.
At least $81 million was transferred to the accounts in Manila-based RCBC, from where it disappeared into the casinos of Philippines.
On March 15, 2016,Bangladesh Bank Deputy Director (accounts and budgeting) Zobayer Bin Huda filed the case with Motijheel Police Station.
Bangladesh so far retrieved $15 million from RCBC and recovered another $20 million sent to a bank in Sri Lanka.
On February 1,2022, Bangladesh Bank sued Rizal Bank in US court in order to recover $66m of stolen funds.