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Kathmandu, September 26
Police have arrested one more person for his alleged involvement in the robbery of over Rs 47.3 million from Agricultural Development Bank Limited.
The arrested has been identified as Ram Krishna Bhusal of Waling Municipality, Syangja district.
Bhusal was arrested at around 12:00pm from the ADBL branch office at Waling Bazaar.
Police said Bhusal had visited the bank to withdraw Rs 6.5 million, which was illegally transferred to his account, a few days ago.
Four arrested Nepalis facing media at a press conference organised by Crime Division of Metropolitan Police in Teku, Kathmandu, on Wednesday.
They were part of a gang that robbed over Rs 475 million from ADBL and a remittance firm.
Photo: Naresh Shrestha/ THT
A foreigner called ‘Peter& had masterminded to illegally transfer over Rs 47.3 million from Lahan based ADBL bank to different 12 accounts of its branches across the country.
The accounts were opened by Peter accomplices.
Peter had used two genuine user IDs and their passwords to transfer the amount into the bank accounts opened by his accomplices.
Senior Superintendent of Police Sahakul Bahadur Thapa of Metropolitan Police Crime Division said, &Our team was secretly deployed to the area when Bhusal approached the Bank and proceeded to withdraw the money, we instantly caught him.&
Thapa also said out of 12 account holders, police have as of now rounded up eight persons.
&We have mobilised our special team to arrest remaining four persons and they will be arrested soon.& Thapa also said remaining four persons will somehow provide a lead to the mastermind of the robbery plan, ‘Peter&.
With the arrest of Bhusal, number of people rounded up in the robbery case has reached 13.
Bhusal is also a construction entrepreneur and operates Pratikshya Nirman Sewa Company.
Meanwhile, ADBL has summoned three staffers of its branch offices in Lahan and Siraha to its head office in Kathmandu.
The hackers had used user IDs and passwords of two of those staffers.
Dirgha Aryal Deputy General Manager of ADBL said, &Our team will investigate if the staffers are innocent or if they were involved in leaking the user IDs and passwords to the hacker.&
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