Police say they have teased out information about the cheating of tens of millions of taka from a foreigner and three bank employees arrested over the recent ATM rip-off.
Published : 26 Feb 2016, 12:55 AM
Dhaka Metropolitan Police spokesperson Monirul Islam said the information came as a surprise to them with the latest card deception proving to be just the tip of the iceberg.
Police arrested Ukraine national Piotr Szcdepan Mazurek, who they say had entered Bangladesh with a Polish passport, at Gulshan in Dhaka on Sunday.
City Bank employees Rezaul Karim Shahin, Refat Abedin, and Moksed Ali Maksud have also been arrested for their alleged link with the ATM fraud.
A court had granted police six days to grill the four in a case under the ICT Act.
Mazurek told police about frauds of several millions of taka, DMP Additional Commissioner Islam said.
“Then he lost count.”
The DMP official posted in the Detective Branch spoke to the reporters at his office on the fourth day of the remand on Thursday.
“They have named several business organisations, hotels and travel agencies involved in the fraud cases,” he said.
“The frauds were conducted through them. The ATM booth fraud is a very small part,” he said.
He said Mazurek admitted during the grilling that he had used several business entities, hotels and travel agencies to launder the money.
Islam did not name the firms, but said they are not ‘big ones’.
He also said one or two expatriate Bangladeshis living in London are involved in the racket.
Some of the others are from Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and Italy, he said, referring to the information Mazurek gave.
“Piotr was the kingpin. Two others came with him. They left Dhaka before the revelation (of the ATM fraud),” he added.
Asked about media reports that the ring sent the money to Farid Nabi, a Bangladeshi expatriate in London from Sylhet, Islam said, “We are checking the information.”