Law enforcers drop IT expert Zoha back home, family says

Law enforcers dropped ‘missing’ IT expert Tanvir Hassan Zoha at his home early on Wednesday, his family says.

Zoha’s uncle Mahbubul Alam said that the law enforcers claimed that he was found loitering on the Airport Road in Dhaka. “They arrived with him at his Kalabagan home around 1:30am.”

He had gone missing seven days ago and his wife had claimed he was taken away by unidentified men.

Zoha’s family had alleged that police did not cooperate when they had approached several police stations after his abduction from Dhaka Cantonment area in the wee hours of Mar 17.

However, none of the security and intelligence agencies admitted to picking up Zoha, who had identified himself as a cyber security specialist for the ICT Division while speaking to media on the $81 million Bangladesh Bank cyber heist.

But as the government body soon denied any links with him, Zoha said he used to work at the ICT Division.

The transfer of $81 million from the Bangladesh Bank account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to the Philippines by hackers drew international media attention after Philippines’ Daily Inquirer broke the news on Feb 29.

Bangladesh Bank officials learnt of the heist, which took place in the first week of February, almost immediately but withheld the information for about a month.