4 arrestees on fresh remand

A Dhaka court yesterday granted a five-day fresh remand for each of four persons, including a German national, arrested over the recent ATM scam in which at least Tk 20 lakh was swindled out from various booths in the capital. A metropolitan magistrate passed the order after Detective Branch (DB) of police produced them before it with an eight-day remand prayer for each.

The four are Maksed alias Maksud, Rezaul Karim alias Shaheen, and Refaz Ahmed alias Rony--all employees of City Bank, and German citizen Piotr Szczepan Mazurek; said a police press release.

A Polish passport and a German national identity card were seized from Mazurek.

Fraudsters skimmed off ATM cards of the clients and withdrew money from various booths of three banks.