Some Bangladesh Bank 公式の/役人s 伴う/関わるd in heist -捜査官/調査官

By Ruma Paul

DHAKA, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Some Bangladesh central bank 公式の/役人s deliberately exposed its computer systems and enabled hackers to steal $81 million from its account at the 連邦の Reserve Bank of New York in February, a 最高の,を越す police 捜査官/調査官 in Dhaka told Reuters on Monday.

The comments by Mohammad Shah Alam, 長,率いる of the 法廷の Training 学校/設ける of the Bangladesh police's 犯罪の 調査 department, are the first 調印する that 捜査官/調査官s have got a 会社/堅い lead in one of the world's biggest cyber heists, which had 誘発するd months of international finger-pointing. 逮捕(する)s are soon likely, he said.

On Thursday, the 長,率いる of a Bangladesh 政府 パネル盤 that 調査/捜査するd the heist said five bank 公式の/役人s were 有罪の of 怠慢,過失 but that they were only unwitting 共犯者s.

Alam told Reuters his 調査s had discovered that some bank 公式の/役人s had knowingly created vulnerabilities in the bank's 関係 to the SWIFT 全世界の messaging and 支払い(額)s system.

"Bangladesh Bank's SWIFT 網状組織 was made insecure by some bank 従業員s in 黙認 with some foreign people," he said. "They knew what they were doing."

He 拒絶する/低下するd to 指名する the 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑うs or say how many there were.

Alam said 捜査官/調査官s were now trying to find out how the 中央の-最高位の 公式の/役人s were connected to the hackers and whether they 利益d f inancially from the heist. Asked if the 公式の/役人s would be 逮捕(する)d, he said: "We are very の近くに to it."

The 明らかな 勢い comes after months of 貿易(する)ing 非難する の中で Bangladesh Bank, the New York Fed, SWIFT, and a Philippine 貸す人 that received much of the stolen 基金s before they disappeared. The heist 誘発するd an international 調査(する) 長,率いるd by the U.S. 連邦の Bureau of 調査.

分かれて SWIFT, or the Society for 世界的な Interbank 財政上の 遠隔通信, told Reuters its messaging system has been 的d in a "meaningful" number of other attacks this year using a 類似の approach as the Bangladesh 出来事/事件.

Bangladesh Bank 広報担当者 Subhankar Saha 拒絶する/低下するd to comment on Alam's comments. A New York Fed spokeswoman also 拒絶する/低下するd comment.

Another 捜査官/調査官 in Dhaka, who 拒絶する/低下するd to be 指名するd, said more than 100 Bangladesh Bank 従業員s had been interviewed in 関係 with the heist, and some were 閉めだした from leaving the country.

In 早期に February, the hackers used the SWIFT 網状組織 to send 偽の orders requesting the 移転 of nearly $1 billion from Bangladesh Bank's account at the New York Fed.

Many of the 移転 orders were 封鎖するd or 逆転するd but, after a 一連の oversights and miscommunications, the New York Fed 最終的に sent $81 million to four 偽の accounts in a 支店 of Rizal 商業の Banking Corp (RCBC) in the Philippines. Most of the 基金s then disappeared into Manila's loosely 規制するd casino 産業. (付加 報告(する)/憶測ing and 令状ing by Krishna N. Das and Jonathan Spicer; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan and Phil Berlowitz)

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