Since they know the guy stole 4.9 billion, he put it somewhere. Just get it back.
Wow...one dooshbah caused the foreign markets to crash, maybe they need to implement SOX404 testing...
He didn't steal that amount. He lost it in the markets.
While I wouldn't be surprised if he was able to steal some money, it is much harder to take cash out of a bank than to lose futures contracts inside a bank.
When Nick Leeson lost barings 1.4 billion, he was only able to steal 35 million - and they found that almost immediately.