DHAKA: Bangladesh’s central bank will file a lawsuit in New York against a Philippine bank over the world’s largest cyber heist, the South Asian country’s finance minister said Wednesday.

Unidentified hackers stole $81 million in February 2016 from the Bangladesh central bank’s account with the US Federal Reserve in New York.

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