Six foreigners surrendered fraud at the ATM booth

However, detectives are still in the dark three days after the Tk3-lakh theft on how the embezzlement occurred.

In a case filed over their alleged involvement with ATM booth fraud in the capital, a Dhaka court placed six Ukrainian men on a three-day remand.

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The foreigners withdrew Tk3 lakh from a Dutch Bangla Bank Limited (DBBL) automated teller machine (ATM) without recording any statement on the server of the bank.

The forgery, officials said, is the first of its kind to be found in Bangladesh.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Dhiman Chandra Mondal approved three-day remand for each arrested person on Monday after police inspector Md Arifur Rahman's Detective Branch (DB) issued them with an eight-day remand plea before the court.

The six Ukrainians were arrested in the case filed under the Digital Security Act, Shevchuk Oleg, 46, Valentine Sokolovski, 37, Dennis Vitomeski, 20, Nazari Vojnok, 19, Sergei Ukrainetz, 33, and Valodimir Trushiniski, 37.

Detectives said they belong to an international cyber theft ring.

Their defense attorney, HM Masum, told All Bangla Newspaper that when the three-day remand ends, he will ask for their bail.

However, detectives are still in the dark three days after the ATM theft on how the embezzlement occurred.

Khandaker Nurunnabi, deputy commissioner of DB (East) told All Bangla Newspaper that the investigation was not updated as they needed an interpreter to talk to the arrested.

"For more than an hour we tried to talk to them, but they didn't reveal anything," he said.

Moshiur Rahman, a DBBL official, lodged a case earlier on Sunday night with Khilgaon police station accusing the six suspects and another Ukrainian man on the run now.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had informed Bangladesh police about possible ATM booth fraud a few days ago, according to a media report.

Mollah Nazrul Islam, CID's special police superintendent, told All Bangla Newspaper that a week earlier they had alerted DBBL.

"Last week we alerted the DBBL authorities about the possibility of such falsification. Occasionally we communicated with the bank to avoid further fraudulent attempts," he said.

Police said on Friday, two Ukrainians withdrew money from a Khilgaon DBBL ATM booth.

They went there again the next day when a security guard managed to detain one of them with the help of local people, while the other escaped.

Five other Ukrainians were detained from a hotel in Dhaka's Panthapath on Saturday night acting on a tip-off.

Stealing money from foreign nationals ' ATM booths in Bangladesh is nothing new. Chinese and European nationals were previously arrested by police for ATM scam in the country.