SL recovers cash stolen from bank

Colombo: Sri Lankan authorities have recovered more than $1.3 million stolen from a Taiwanese bank after two men were arrested in connection with the heist, an official said Thursday. An international manhunt was launched after a reported $60 million was swiped when a criminal gang hacked into the Far Eastern International Bank’s SWIFT system. The money was wired to accounts in the United States, Cambodia and Sri Lanka. The two men arrested over the theft had tried to withdraw large sums of money that had been wired to their accounts.