Police have arrested one person in connection with a case over the withdrawal of money by falsifying customer information from the National Savings Certificate server.
The arrestee, Arifur Rahman, was detained from Dhaka’s Motijheel area on Thursday, said Motijheel Police Station Officer-in-Charge Mejbah Uddin.
Earlier, Bangladesh Bank Additional Director Abul Khair Md Khalid filed a case with Motijheel Police Station over the fraudulent encashment of savings certificate funds, naming four accused.
Besides Arifur Rahman, the others accused are Maruf Elahi Rony, Mohiuddin Ahmed, and Al Amin. Maruf Elahi Rony is a former vice president of the previous Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) central committee and was also the convener of the Amar Ekushey Hall unit while studying at Dhaka University.
According to the case statement, on 27 October, a savings certificate holder named SM Rezvi discovered while filing his income tax return that his Tk 25 lakh savings certificate, purchased on 13 October, had already been encashed, although he had neither applied for nor received the payment.
The case adds that on 22 October, the accused changed Rezvi’s registered mobile number and bank account information in the server. The funds were then redirected to an NRB Commercial Bank account under Arifur Rahman’s name at the Raniganj sub-branch in Dinajpur, where Tk 25 lakh was encashed on 26 October.
The accused also attempted to withdraw money from two more savings certificates using the same method. On 27 October, Tk 50 lakh was encashed into a Dutch-Bangla Bank account at Karwan Bazar belonging to Maruf Elahi Rony, but the funds could not ultimately be withdrawn.
