A Dhaka court has granted four days of fresh remand to a foreigner and three officials of City Bank for their suspected involvement in the recent ATM card scam.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saad Bir Yeasir Ahsan Chowdhury passed the remand order on Sunday afternoon.
The court also granted three days of remand to two new arrestees in the ATM scam.
They are Md Humayun Kabir and Md Saifuzzaman.
Detective Branch (DB) of police detained the foreigner and three City Bank officials from Gulshan area on February 21.
Of the detainees, the foreigner was identified as "Thomas". The City Bank officials are Moksed Alam Maksud, Rezaul Karim Shahin and Refaz Ahmed Roni.
The law enforcers seized a Polish passport from the foreigner's possession. The ID card, also seized from "Thomas", says that he is a German citizen.
According to a DB press release, he had stolen the passport and turned himself into "Piotr Szczepan Mazurek" from "Thomas".
During primary interrogation, "Thomas" claimed himself to be a German national. However, police said they are considering "Thomas" as a Polish citizen as he was carrying a Polish passport.
"Thomas" said that an international gang is engaged with the ATM scam. He plotted the scam along with a Bangladeshi expatriate in London, a Bulgarian and a Ukrainian national.
According to Bangladesh Bank, more than Tk20 lakh have been withdrawn from ATM booths of several private commercial banks in recent weeks with at least 40 forged debit cards.
