Police yesterday busted a gang for swindling people out of around BD42,000 by running a phone scam.
Authorities, in coordination with banks, managed to stop the transfers and recover the money. Officials are taking legal measures to refer the suspect to Public Prosecution
The Director-General of the General Department for Combating Corruption and Economic and Electronic Security said they trapped the gang, all Asian nationals, after investigating a complaint from a citizen who lost BD11,000 from his bank account following a phone call.
Investigators managed to track the transactions and their beneficiaries in coordination with the bank. This resulted in identifying and arresting the gang and seizing the devices and mobile phones used for the fraud.
The suspects, police said, managed to trap several and seize large sums of money from their accounts. “We managed to stop all those transactions in coordination with the bank,” said the Director General.
