Staff Reporter :
Police arrested at least 11 people for attempting to withdraw Tk 90 crore using fake documents from Brac Bank’s Gulshan branch in the capital on Sunday afternoon, police said.
The arrested persons were identified as Hasibul Hasan, 34, Mirajul Islam, 34, Sabbir Rahman, 24, Md Nazrul Haque, 42, Shahabur Rahman Babul, 65, Khorshed Alam, 34, Delwar Hossain, 45, Selim Ahmed, 44, Shajahan, 52, Kazi Shahadat Hossain, 57, and Mahbubur Rahman Kajol, 30.
Nurul Alam, Assistant Commissioner (Gulshan zone) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police said, “The gang was attempting to withdraw Tk 80 crore from a FDR account at the bank around at 1:00pm. There were Tk90 crore in the account.”
They contacted with the branch to withdraw the money. On suspicion, the bank authorities informed the matter to Gulshan thana, police official said.
They detained them from the bank following the information, he said. They arrested persons are being interrogated in this connection, he said.
Manager of the branch Sheikh Mohammad Ashfak said that the gang was attempting to withdraw money in absence of original customer.
Saiful Islam, an expatriate living in the US, has the money in his account with the branch, he said.
