e-News® | The NEWS Company…DHAKA, Feb 22, 2016 : Detectives arrested four persons including a Polish citizen from city’s Gulshan area on Sunday evening for their suspected involvement with the recent ATM card scam. The arrestees are: Polish citizen Piotr Szczepan Mazurek and three officials of City Bank Maksed Al alias Maksud, Rezaul Karim alias Shaheen, and Refaz Ahmed alias Roni.
A squad of Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested the four along with a passport, an identity card given by the German government confirming Piotr’s German citizenship from Gulshan area on Sunday evening, a DB official said.
During primary interrogation, Piotr said that though he was born in Ukraine, but he is a Polish citizen and his real name is Thomas. He became Piotr after stealing a passport of a German citizen named Piotr. Piotr also confessed that an international gang was involved in the debit card forgery and the gang is active in Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and Poland in East Europe.
DB sources said the gang looted huge amount of money from the ATM booths of UCBL (United Commercial Bank Limited), City Bank, and Eastern Bank on January 7 and 8.
