Philippine authorities have requested that money laundering charges be filed against two local casino industry figures in connection with the millions heisted from Bangladeshi central bank accounts last month.

On Tuesday, the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) filed criminal complaints with the Department of Justice against Kam Sin Wong aka Kim Wong, the president and GM of Eastern Hawaii Leisure Co Ltd, which operates a casino in the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority.

The AMLC is also seeking charges against Weikang Xu, an ethnic Chinese junket operator who may or may not be a Philippine passport holder. Xu is accused of receiving $30.5m of the $81m that was improperly transferred from Federal Reserve Bank accounts in New York to a Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) branch in the Philippines.

Wong stands accused of withdrawing around $21.6m of the transferred funds from his personal and corporate accounts. Wong’s attorney Victor Fernandez issued a statement saying his client returned to the Philippines from Singapore on Sunday and is ready to testify before the Senate panel conducting an inquiry into the international scandal.