A trap was laid at BRAC Bank’s Gulshan branch around 1pm on Sunday, Gulshan police Inspector Firoz Kabir said.
Saiful
Islam, a Bangladeshi expatriate in the US, had deposited a sum of money
in the bank’s Fixed Deposit Receipt (FDR) account.
A group tried to withdraw Tk 900 million from the account by submitting a forged power of attorney, the inspector said.
The bank authorities had contacted police on suspicion of foul play with the papers submitted several days ago, he said.
Two people came on Sunday to withdraw the money as advised, the police offer said.
They were asked to bring more people as the bank said two were not enough to handle such a huge sum.
Nine others arrived following their call and police arrested them all.
Those
held are Hasinul Hasan, 34, Mirazul Islam, 34, Sabbir Rahman, 24,
Nazrul Haque, 42, Shahabur Rahman Bablu, 65, Khorshed Alam, 34, Delwar
Hossain, 45, Selim Ahmed, 44, ‘Shahjahan’, 52, Kazi Shahadat Hossain,
57, and Mahbubur Rahman Kajal, 30.
Branch Manager Sheikh Mohammad Ashfaq said they were trying to cash the FDR in absence of the client.
Asked
whether anyone of the bank was involved in the attempted fraud, Deputy
Commissioner Lutful Kabir said they were investigating the matter.
“We are in the preliminary stage,” he said.
A swindle in Sonali Bank’s Lalmatia branch made headlines when 55 cheques were stolen on Oct 26 last year.
There has also been a bid to withdraw money by submitting one of the stolen cheques from Standard Bank.
Information regarding the missing cheques and documents of several branches of 14 banks were gathered later.
A
bank official and six others were arrested in December last year for
withdrawing a large sum of money from several accounts with forged
cheques.
----bdnews24.com-
Published: 2015-03-08 20:10:51.0 BdST
Updated: 2015-03-08 20:10:51.0 BdST
