The charges, if filed, would target alleged Chinese middlemen who prosecutors believed helped North Korea orchestrate the theft, the newspaper said. Federal Bureau of Investigation offices in Los Angeles and New York have been working on the heist and believe that North Korea is responsible, an official briefed on the probe told Reuters. The Journal reported that the current cases being pursued may not include charges against North Korean officials, but would likely implicate North Korea, with the United States accusing a foreign government of orchestrating one of the biggest bank robberies of modern times. A top police investigator in Dhaka told Reuters in December that some Bangladesh Bank officials deliberately exposed its computer systems, enabling the hackers to get in. The New York Fed did not immediately respond to a request to comment.

Source: Huffington Post March 22, 2017 21:17 UTC