Tuesday 22 March 2016

Hackers steal away via Manila’s black hole

IN FEBRUARY 2013, the Philippines was up against a deadline to amend its Anti-Money Laundering Act and get itself off the “grey list” of a global watchdog, and legislators were mulling whether to include casinos under the legislation.

With one day to go, a Congressional committee heard repeated pleas not to hamstring an industry that could rival other Asian gambling meccas by obliging casinos to report suspicious transactions. Finally, the senator chairing the meeting agreed to exclude them, a transcript of the proceedings shows.

That same senator now heads a panel trying to fathom how $81m hacked last month from the New York Federal Reserve account of Bangladesh’s central bank wound up with two casinos and a junket operator in the Philippines — and then disappeared. For the full article click here 



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