Mir Shahruzzaman Rony, a former senior officer of the ADC division of Dutch Bangla Bank, has embezzled more than Tk 2.5 crore in three years by making the story of silver screen fraud a reality. He left the country after embezzling huge sums of money by changing the electronic journal of the ATM booth.
However, police have arrested four people, including his wife, involved in the incident.
The Cyber and Special Crime Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Police arrested them from different areas of Dhaka and Narayanganj on Tuesday.
The four arrested are Saima Akhter, Al-Amin Babu, Mehedi Hasan, M. Mamun and Asaduzzaman Asad.
Four mobile phones were seized from them during the arrest, Additional Commissioner of Metropolitan Detective Police Hafiz Akter told a news conference on Wednesday.
He said, ‘Ronnie, the mastermind of the fraud, used to withdraw money from the ATM booth with the detainees including his wife. But they claimed the money did not come out of the machine. In fact, he used to change the electronic journal of the ATM machine in such a way that the allegation of not getting money from the ATM later appeared to be true.
According to Hafiz Akhter, about Tk 2.57 crore has been ’embezzled’ in 1363 transactions through 637 accounts.
A case has been filed under the Digital Security Act at Motijheel police station in this regard.
