Dhaka, Bangladesh Global: ‘Billion Dollar Heist’, a feature-length documentary depicting the $81 million reserve heist from the account of the central bank of Bangladesh with the Federal Reserve Bank in the United States in 2016, is now available on OTT platforms.
According to the website of Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, the documentary, directed by Daniel Gordon, Brendan Donovan and Bryn Evans, was released on OTT platforms, namely Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV and others on August 15.
The trailer of the documentary was released on YouTube channels named Universal Pictures All-Access and DocBusters on July 18.
Through a variety of interviews with different cyber security specialists and author Misha Glenny, the documentary recounts how hackers were able to use the Society for Worldwide Interbank
Financial Telecommunication banking system—the messaging network banks across the world use to execute transfers between one another—to illegally move $101 million from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, reported theverge.com.
On February 4, 2016, hackers tried to steal close to $1 billion from Bangladesh’s central bank’s reserve but ultimately managed to steal $101 million, including $20 million sent to a Sri Lankan account.
Of the stolen money, the rest $81 million was transferred to fictitious bank accounts of Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation in Philippine and the amount was withdrawn from the bank before it became tresses in the country’s casinos.
Manila returned $15 million following an order issued by a Philippines regional court in November 2016 while the remaining $66 million is yet to be recovered.
Almost three years after the incident, the central bank of Bangladesh filed a case with a United States district court.
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