The laundering of $81 million stolen from the Bangladesh Central Bank wired to the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC) Jupiter Branch in Makati City (Metro Manila) endangers remittances of overseas Filipino workers worth at least P26 billion a year.

Liberal Party (LP) standard-bearer Manuel “Mar” Roxas 2nd made the warning as the Senate resumed its investigation on Tuesday of the hacking of the $81 million from the Bangladesh Bank reserves at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

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