Deputy of the Bank of Bangladesh Atiur Rahman Resigned After Massive Heist By Hacker

The Deputy of central bank of Bangladesh resigned after US Federal Reserve accounts have been emptied out by hackers.The Deputy of the Bank of Bangladesh Atiur Rahman presented his resignation on March 15 to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after 101 million dollars embezzlement by hackers from central bank account to the US Federal Reserve in New-York was discovered.

“I am leaving as a hero. I did not want my institution, the Bangladesh Bank, and my country facing any controversy over the issue,” he told reporters.

In a press conference held in the afternoon of March 15, Atiur Rahman stated he resigned as a moral duty and against the storm of criticism raised on the social media he replied that he never attempted to hide the affair for more than one month from the Minister, says Dhakka Daily Star of Finance.

He said it took some time for Bangladesh Bank to understand the stealing. “There was some lacking in our understanding. But more importantly, I tried to fence what we had left and prevent any further damage.”

“It took us some time to disclose the matter. But, what we have done was according to protocol,” he said, and added that the government was knocked after the bank had a better understanding and control over the situation.

“It was a very high-tech incident of cyber attack. We couldn’t understand it in the first place. But this incident has a lot of positive sides. We can turn a crisis into opportunity.”

He also demanded proper investigation of the incident and wished for punishment of the perpetrators.