No other details were given by the policeman, but the defendants seem to be those who received a few of the payments, and not the hackers.

The majority of the payments were blocked but $81 million (about Rs. Another $20 million was sent to an organization in Sri Lanka but the transport was revoked as the hackers misspelled the name of the business, raising a red flag in the routing bank.

A senior policeman in the criminal investigation section of the Bangladesh police, Mohammad Shah Alam, said Interpol had helped identify the foreigners supposed to participate in among the biggest cyber heists in history.

Another official on his team said the outcome of the investigation was submitted to Philippine and Sri Lankan authorities.

The other official who declined to be named as well as both Alam said they couldn’t supply additional information about the foreign suspects because investigations were incomplete.

A Senate committee in the Philippines is holding hearings into the way in which the cash stolen from the Bangladesh central bank wound up with a junket operator as well as two casinos in the nation.

Sri Lanka’s criminal police department is, in addition, investigating the cyber larceny, but has declined to supply any advice.

The Bangladesh police officer, Alam, said there clearly was no signs of anyone inside the Bangladesh bank being involved in the hacking of its own computer systems. Authorities were investigating if service providers to the central bank had not been diligent in setting up protected computer systems, he said.