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Bangladesh ATM fraud: 6 foreigners detained

Bangladesh ATM fraud: 6 foreigners detained

Bangladesh Live News | @banglalivenews | 03 Jun 2019, 09:02 am
Dhaka, June 3: Six foreigners have been arrested from Dhaka city in Bangladesh in connection with the hacking into an ATM of a private bank using digital forgery, media reports said.

They withdrew money after hacking the ATM, reports said.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Dhiman Chandra Mondol passed the order on Monday after police sought eight days to question the alleged fraudsters, bdnews24 news portal.

The suspects are all Ukrainian nationals, Ashraful Islam, a court officer, told the news portal.

They were arrested from a city hotel at Panthapath on Saturday, Shahidur Rahman Ripon, additional deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s detective branch (east), told The Daily Star.

According to police and bank sources, two foreign nationals withdrew Tk 3 lakh from a Dutch-Bangla Bank ATM booth on Friday, reported the newspaper.

The arrested person were ientified as Denys Vitomskyi, 20, Volodymyr Trishchynskyi, 37, Serheii Ukrainets, 33, Oleg Shevchuk, 46, Nazarii Vozniuk, 19, Valentyn Sokolovskyi, 37.