Desk Report
Publish: 19 Jan 2022, 11:54 pm
Turkish national Hakan Zanburkan Arrested in the scam || Photo: Collected
Two men involved in an international ATM card cloning and
scamming ring have been arrested by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Counter
Terrorism and Transnational Crimes Unit.
The arrestees have been identified as Turkish national Hakan
Zanburkan, 55, and Md Mofiul Islam.
The two were arrested from the Gulshan-1 area of the capital
on Tuesday.
Five mobile phones of different models, a laptop, and 15
cloned cards were seized during the arrest.
Hakan, the mastermind of the ATM card cloning and scam ring,
attempted to make 84 withdrawals from Eastern Bank Limited's ATM booths between
Jan 2 and Jan 4 using several cards from different countries, said Md
Asaduzzaman, additional police commissioner and chief of the CTTC unit.
However, because of the bank’s anti-scamming system, an
alarm was raised, the issue was noticed and the institution was able to prevent
the fraud.
During an interrogation, Hakan revealed that he came to
Bangladesh on Dec 31 and began staying at Hotel The Capital in Dhaka’s Paltan.
“Between Jan 2 and Jan 4, Hakan went to different Eastern
Bank ATM booths and attempted to withdraw money at least 84 times using cloned
international credit cards from nearly 40 countries around the world, including
Australia, New Zealand, the US, India, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Austria, Germany,
Vietnam, the UK, Canada, Bolivia, Spain, Finland and Norway,” Md Asaduzzaman
said.
Hakan was arrested alongside another Turkish national and
two Bangladeshi nationals in an ATM booth scamming case in India’s Assam in
2019, he said.
Before his arrest, he allegedly defrauded some Rs 1 million
through cloning cards.
“Hakan spent some 20 months in jail in India before he was
taken to the Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital in Agartala for treatment while in
police custody and escaped,” the CTTC unit chief said.
“Then, with the help of an Indian national, he spent Rs
200,000 to travel from Sikkim to Nepal. From there he procured travel
documents, returned to his home country of Turkey and created a new passport.”
His crime ring involved nationals from numerous countries,
including Bangladesh, Turkey, Bulgaria, Mexico and India, the CTTC said.
A Digital Security Act case is being prepared against the
arrestees at Dhaka’s Paltan Police Station.
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