Staff Reporter :Tanvir Hasan Zoha, an IT expert, who was involved in the investigation of the Bangladesh Bank cyber heist, has reportedly been missing since Wednesday.His wife Kamrun Nahar Chowdhury claimed that her husband was abducted from Kachukhet area around 1:00am Wednesday. She said Zoha talked with her over the phone around 11:30pm Tuesday for the last time. His mobile phone has been found switched off since 12:15am.Zoha’s uncle Mahbubul Alam claimed that Zoha went to the office of an intelligence agency on Wednesday night from where he phoned his friend Yamir Ahmed to accompany him on the way to his residence.”My nephew Zoha and Yamir took a CNG-run auto-rickshaw but it went out of order after two minutes. Then two microbuses blocked their way and took away them. Then, Yamir was dropped at Manik Mia Avenue. Later, Yamir informed Zoha’s family about his abduction,” Mahbubul said as quoting Zoha’s friend Yamir.Raising allegation against police, Mahbubul Alam said that they went to Kalabagan police station to inform police soon after the incident, but the police told them that the area of the incident is under Kafrul police station.After they reached Kafrul police station early Thursday, they were again sent to Cantonment police station. Not only that, the Cantonment police sent them to Bhasantek police station where the law enforcers told them that the area of the incident was not under their jurisdictions.Being failed to file a general diary, Zoha’s family members were compelled to return to their home. Zoha’s wife demanded her husband to return safe and sound.Meanwhile, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday afternoon said that missing IT expert Tanvir Hasan Zoha might have been arrested for the sake of investigation over the Bangladesh Bank fund heist.The Minister came up with the statement after attending a programme at Krishibid Institute in the capital’s Farmgate.”The law enforcers might have arrested Zoha for the sake of investigation. But I am not sure about it”, the Home Minister said responding to the queries of reporters.On February 4, hackers stole more than $101 million from Bangladesh Bank’s account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and wired it to a number of bank accounts in the Philippines and Sri Lanka.On February 29, Philippines daily the Inquirer broke the story of a possible $100m digital bank robbery of the BB fund.After the incident of Bangladesh Bank reserve heist came to light, Zoha talked to the media, giving expert opinion.The media reports identified Zoha as the ICT Division’s cyber security specialist or cyber security wing director (Operations). But the ICT Division in a press release denied any link with Zoha.In the statement, the ICT Division further said it had not formed any committee to probe the fund heist.
