Dhaka: Police arrested a Poland national from Gulshan area on Sunday night over the ATM scam in Dhaka in which miscreants withdrew money from the booths by using duplicate cards.

Detective Branch (DB) said the arrestee is Thomas alias Peter.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a text message said the foreigner was held after watching video footage captured in the closed-circuit cameras of ATM booths.

The DMP message said details about the arrest will be briefed in a press conference at about 11:30am in DMP media centre.

Earlier on 12 February, the authorities of the United Commercial Bank (UCB) filed a case with Banani Police station as at least Tk 1.26 lakh was misappropriated through ATM card forgery recently.

On 13 February, the Bangladesh Bank asked several banks to block around 200 ATM cards believed to have been read by ‘skimming devices’ during 7-9 February.

On 17 February, the DB claimed that a citizen of an Eastern European country was suspected to be involved in the ATM card forgery as they had identified the faces of around 5 foreigners from video footage.