4 bank officials held for credit card forgery

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Plainclothes police arrested four officials of Mutual Trust Bank (MTB) from the city's Gulshan, Uttara and Motijheel areas on Tuesday on charge of forging debit and credit cards, reports UNB. The arrestees were identified as engineer Selim, engineer Arif Hossain Khan, Manzurul Haque, and Asadul Islam all IT section officials of the bank. They allegedly took out nearly Tk 10 million with forged debit and credit cards from different ATM booths of the bank in recent months. Tipped off, a team of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) conducted simultaneous drives in the city's Gulshan, Uttara and Motijheel areas from 11:00am to 9:00 pm on Tuesday and arrested the four bank officials. The detectives also recovered fake debit and credit cards, card readers and writers and computers and engineering products used in making the fake cards. A DB official told the news agency that Selim and Arif, who were engaged in card servicing, used to make new cards and collect secret pin numbers of cardholders from ATM booths through secret video cameras, which they used to install inside the ATM booths. Later, Selim and Arif with the help of Manzurul and Asadul, who also have the engineering background, used to draw money with the forged debit and credit cards from different ATM booths. "This is how they took out nearly Tk 10 million through the forged cards," the DB official said. During their preliminary interrogations, they reportedly confessed to their involvement in the card forgery, he added.