The investigation into millions of dollars in heisted Bangladeshi government funds has turned its focus on a Philippines casino junket operator.

Last week, the Philippines Amusement and Gaming Corp (PAGCOR) claimed that $46m of the $81m that was unlawfully transferred last month from Bangladeshi central bank accounts in New York to a bank in the Philippines had ended up in the hands of local casino operators. Officials now say $30m in cash ended up in the hands of a local junket operator.

The Philippines Senate is conducting hearings into the scandal, and bank officials testified on Tuesday that the $81m was transferred to four accounts at the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) and later consolidated into a single account.

Around $30m was transferred to Weikang Xu – an ethnic Chinese of unknown citizenship with ties to the local junket industry – in a mix of US dollars and Philippine pesos. Intriguingly, the RCBC branch’s CCTV cameras weren’t functioning when the money was withdrawn.