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Bangladesh Bank Heist

Second Secretary of the Bangladesh Embassy in Manila Probash Lamarong; Anti-Money Laundering Council Director Julia Bacay-Abad; and council member Emmanuel Dooc (from left) open a case containing U.S. dollars on March 31, 2016. The money was returned by Chinese casino junket operator Kam Sin Wong to Bangladesh and Philippine AMLC officials in Manila, Philippines. Bangladesh's central bank has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Philippine private bank over the heist of $81 million from Bangladesh Bank's account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The head of Bangladesh Bank's Finance Intelligence Unit confirmed the lawsuit against the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (Jason Arlan Raval/Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas via AP)

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