{"id":10273,"date":"2020-09-23T21:42:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T21:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=10273"},"modified":"2026-04-24T01:35:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:35:01","slug":"bloomberry-receives-new-summons-over-cyber-heist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/bloomberry-receives-new-summons-over-cyber-heist","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberry receives new summons over cyber-heist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A New York State court has summoned the operator in connection to a 2016 attack on the Bangladesh Bank by hackers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Philippines.-&nbsp;Bloomberry&nbsp;Resorts Corporation\u2019s subsidiary in the Philippines has received a new summons to a New York state court in relation to the 2016 incident in which hackers used casino accounts, among other methods, in an US$81 million cyber-heist.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bloomberry&nbsp;Resorts and Hotels, which operates the Solaire Resort &amp; Casino in Metro Manila, said it had a summons relating to the civil claim filed by the Bangladesh Bank.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The operator is only one of 17 firms and individuals named in the claim along with Eastern Hawaii Leisure Company, which operates the Midas Hotel and Casino also in the Philippines.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The charges are for conversion, theft, misappropriation, aiding and abetting, conspiracy, fraud and trespass&nbsp;against chattels, as well as for unjust enrichment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bangladesh Bank is aiming to recuperate some of the funds stolen by a\u00a0group of hackers allegedly linked to North Korea,\u00a0who sent multiple orders from the bank\u2019s account with the Federal Reserve of New York to accounts at Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stolen funds were allegedly funnelled through Philippine casinos, including&nbsp;Bloomberry\u2019s&nbsp;Solaire.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a style=\"font-weight: bold;font-style: italic\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/bloomberry-casino-bangladesh-bank\" target=\"_blank\">Bangladesh Bank&#8217;s appeal<\/a> over the case at the US Circuit Court is still pending.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York State court has summoned the operator in connection to a 2016 attack on the Bangladesh Bank by hackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Bloomberry Resorts Corporation's Philippine subsidiary, operator of Solaire Resort & Casino, has received a New York State court summons regarding the 2016 Bangladesh Bank cyber-heist. The civil claim alleges the use of casino accounts, among other methods, to launder US$81 million, with charges including aiding and abetting, conspiracy, and unjust enrichment. This development highlights ongoing legal and reputational risks for iGaming operators implicated in financial crime investigations.","focusai_entities":"Bloomberry Resorts Corporation, Bloomberry Resorts and Hotels, Solaire Resort & Casino, Bangladesh Bank, Eastern Hawaii Leisure Company, Midas Hotel and Casino, Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC), Federal Reserve of New York","focusai_location":"New York State, Philippines, Metro Manila, Bangladesh, North Korea","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"AML\/CTF Governance Enhancements?","query":"What specific enhancements to AML\/CTF governance frameworks are Bloomberry and other Philippine operators implementing to mitigate future financial crime risks?"},{"label":"Licensing Impact?","query":"How might this ongoing litigation impact Bloomberry's B2B\/B2C licensing status or expansion strategies in other regulated jurisdictions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[413,4503],"class_list":["post-10273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-bloomberry","tag-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19682,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10273\/revisions\/19682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}