Sagar Biswas :Investigators are damn sure that the Chinese national, arrested red-handed on Wednesday while withdrawing cash from an ATM booth in the city’s Elephant Road, was working in a synchronized way with two other accomplices to steal money from different units using cloned debit cards.They also believe that the two suspects have already left the country along with about Tk six lakh which was withdrawn from two separate ATM [Automated Teller Machine] booths of Prime Bank, Farm Gate and Panthapath, almost at the same time applying the same technique.”We think the two accomplices of arrested Chinese man Zou Jian Hui have left Bangladesh along with the booty. But we’re not cent percent sure about their departure, we’re investigating,” Mufti Mahmud Khan, Director of Legal and Media Wing, Rapid Action Battalion [RAB], said on Thursday.Earlier on Wednesday, members of RAB detained Chinese national Zou Jian Hui after he was caught red-handed while withdrawing money from a Prime Bank ATM booth using a clone card at Elephant Road under New Market Police Station. RAB sources said the card used by Zou Jian Hui was actually allotted to a customer by a US bank.The two absconding accomplices of Zou Jian Hui arrived Bangladesh boarding a flight of Malaysian Airlines [MH 196] on May 15. According to their booking receipts, they were supposed to check-in at Hotel Ornate. But they didn’t go to the hotel. Rather, they took cooperation of another Chinese man and stayed at his Uttara house as paying guests. They probably have left the country [Bangladesh] through Malaysian Airlines, the RAB sources said.”So far as we know, Zou Jian Hui withdrew Tk 66, 000 from ATM booth at Elephant Road punching his cloned card for eleven times. Besides, two other accomplices of him withdrew about Tk 5, 09,000 from ATM booths of Prime Bank at Farm Gate and Panthapath,” Mufti Mahmud Khan further said.After verifying passport of the arrested Zou Jian Hui, the RAB also found that he earlier had visited Saudi Arabia and Egypt for same purpose. During his visit to Saudi Arabia, he had stolen all informational of an ATM card holder of Bank of Riyadh. Later, he prepared a clone card inserting all stolen information, the RAB sources said. Meanwhile, the RAB on Thursday filed a case [no-13] with New Market Police Station against the arrested Chinese national under ICT Act on charge of cyber fraud. Later, the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Alamgir Kabir granted one-day remand for him when he was produced by police yesterday noon.
