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Police to question Ukrainian, three others arrested in Dhaka over ATM fraud
Police will question in custody a foreigner and three bank employees they arrested over the recent ATM fraud for six days.
Published : 22 Feb 2016, 11:44 AM
Updated : 22 Feb 2016, 11:45 AM
Metropolitan Magistrate Majharul Islam gave the order after they were produced in court on Monday. They were shown arrested under the ICT Act.
On Sunday, Detective Branch arrested Ukrainian Piotr Szcdepan Mazurek along with City Bank employees Rezaul Karim Shahin, Refat Abedin and Moksed Ali Maksud in Gulshan.
Detectives arrested Mazurek seven days ago, said his lawyer HM Masum. “He’s been brutally tortured.”
“The law says an arrestee has to be produced in court within 24 hours but that’s been violated.”
Mazurek, who police said entered Bangladesh with a fake Polish passport, showed the scars in his body but the court refused him when he wished to address the court.
Police in an earlier statement said Mazurek was also found carrying a German identity card that they say was also fake.
In a police complaint filed on Feb 14, United Commercial Bank (UCB) said CCTV camera footage had revealed a foreigner installing, at an ATM, a skimming device meant to steal account information.
Police then said five men of eastern European origin who resembled the man from the surveillance footage were under their watch.
On Monday, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) spokesperson Maruf Hossain Sardar confirmed bdnews24.com of the arrests.
The four were soon brought at a media briefing. The three Bangladeshis work at the City Bank’s IT division, said a DMP statement.
It also said Mazurek belonged to a gang of international fraudsters and that he had planned the theft along with another Ukrainian and a Bulgarian.
The fraudsters installed devices and video cameras at six booths of the UCB, Eastern Bank Limited (EBL) and City Bank to steal client information.
Altogether, 1,200 transactions had taken place while the scam device was installed.
As many as 40 bank cards were cloned to withdraw Tk 2 million, according to media reports that cited police sources.
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