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Urgent: Bangladesh bank governor resigns over 101 mln usd heist

Xinhua, March 15, 2016 Adjust font size:

Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rahman has resigned from this post as the country's account at the U.S. Federal Reserve had been hacked and some 101 million U.S. dollars was stolen, an official at the Bangladesh Prime Minister's Office told Xinhua on Tuesday afternoon. Endit