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Police arrest foreign national, three bank employees over ATM fraud

A foreigner has been arrested along with three Bangladeshis in connection with recent cases of ATM fraud in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on February 22, 2016. Police said in a statement that the foreigner, who has been identified as Piotr Szcdepan Mazurek, was born in Ukraine and entered Bangladesh on a Polish passport. Police said the passport he possessed was ‘fake’. A German identity card was found on the foreigner, the authenticity of which is being doubted by law-enforcers. In a complaint filed with police on Feb 14, the 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 had said five foreigners having affinity with the man in the footage were under watch. On Monday, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) spokesperson Maruf Hossain Sardar confirmed to bdnews24.com the arrest of a few people, including a foreigner. Detectives produced the four, arrested from Dhaka’s Gulshan on Sunday, at a media briefing. The Bangladeshi nationals have been identified as Moksed Ali Maksud, Rezaul Karim Shahin and Refat Ahmed Rony. The three work at the City Bank’s IT division, said the DMP statement. City Bank has also filed a complaint with police over ATM fraud. The Detective Branch investigating the scam. The DMP statement said that Piotr Mazurek belongs to a gang of international fraudsters and that he had planned the theft along with another Ukrainian and a Bulgarian national. The fraudsters had 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 took place after the device installation. As many as 40 bank cards were cloned to withdraw Tk 2 million, according to media reports citing police sources.

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