Police arrested three people from different parts of the country on Friday and Saturday in connection with the stealing of Tk26 lakh from an ATM booth of Dutch Bangla Bank in Subidbazar of Sylhet city.
They also recovered Tk18 lakh stolen from the booth on October 28.
The arrestees were Altab Hossain Limon, 22, Aminul Haque, 24, and Nurul Islam Munna, 25.
Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) Deputy Commissioner Azbahar Ali Sheikh said: “Police arrested Altab, an official of Securex Company and arrested him from his residence at Shibganj Point in the city on Friday. Police also recovered Tk10 lakh cash from his possession.”
Following the confessional statement of Altab, police arrested Aminul from Dhaka’s Motijheel area and Nurul from Bhairab upazila of Kishoreganj district on Saturday, he said at a press briefing.
Police also recovered Tk7.85 lakh and Tk21,000 respectively from their possession.
The arrestees also deposited Tk6.78 lakh in their bank accounts and spent Tk1.48 lakh.
During interrogation, the arrestees said they had been involved in stealing Tk8 lakh from Islami Bank, said Deputy Commissioner Azbahar.
On October 28, the arrestees looted Tk26 lakh from the Subid Bazar ATM booth of Dutch Bangla Bank.
The incident came to light on October 30 when the bank authorities found Tk26.32 lakh missing from the bank.
Sandipon Das, in charge of the Sylhet region booth, filed a case against two officials of Securex company.
According to the CCTV footage of the booth, two people wearing caps, masks, sunglasses and gloves entered the booth around 11:56 pm and took away the money.
At one stage, they gave a signal to the security guard of the booth to lower down the shutter of the booth.
