50 individuals, org. involved in ATM card forgery: Police

Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Monirul Islam of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has confirmed this to media while briefing reporters at the DMP media center in the capital today.

 

'Remanded German national Piotr Szczepan Mazurek has said at least 40 to 50 organisations in the country are involved in the ATM card forgery,' the DMP official said.

 

Earlier a Dhaka court here placed the foreign national and three officials of City Bank on a six-day remand in connection with the recent ATM card forgery in the country.

 

On February 21, one foreign national and three officials of City Bank were detained in connection with the recent ATM card forgery.

 

The arrested three City Bank officials are identified as Moksed Ali Maksud, Rezaul Karim Shahin and Refat Ahmed Rony.

 

It was the first of its kind ATM scam. Fraudsters skimmed off ATM cards of the clients and withdrew the money from various booths of three banks.

 

On February 17, DMP’s Additional Commissioner Monirul Islam said that a citizen of East Europe is suspected to be involved in recent ATM card forgery incidents as detectives have already identified 4-5 foreigners through scrutinising CCTV footages.

 

The official said a case was filed with Banani Police Station in connection with ATM cards forgery.

 

The case has already been transferred to the Detective Branch (DB) of police.

 

The Additional Commissioner said the detectives have also been investigating if local people, including bank employees and officials, are involved in the forgery.

 

On February 12, authority of the United Commercial Bank (UCB) has filed the case with Banani Police station as at least Tk 1.26 lakh was misappropriated through several ATM cards forgery recently.

 

The Bangladesh Bank on February 13, asked several banks to block around 200 ATM cards as those are believed to have been read by “skimming devices” during February 7-9.