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Brac Bank Heist

Delay in return of ornaments, valuables worries victims

Staff Correspondent
The victims of Brac Bank heist yesterday expressed their frustration over the delay in getting back their ornaments and valuables looted from the bank vault seven monthsago.
Both the police and bank authorities said the matter depends on the court order.
More than 50 of the 60 victims, who were invited by the bank authorities to look at the booties recovered by the law enforcers, went to Detective Branch (DB) of police office yesterday, but the magistrate did not allow them to look at their ornaments showing various legal complications.
Many of them said they had been keeping in touch with both the DB police and bank authorities, but none of them cooperated with the victims of the heist.
DB Police Inspector AKM Nasir Ullah told The Daily Star, “We have recovered the booties but we have no right or authority to return these to the owners without court order."
Robbers tunnelled into the bank's locker room cutting through the ceiling in the first week of January and made off with gold ornaments and other valuables from 60 lockers, primarily estimated at several crores of taka.
DB police so far recovered over 550 tolas of gold ornaments, five pieces of diamonds, around 100 tolas of silver ornaments and Tk 3 lakh in cash and arrested 27 people.
They have also interrogated nine Brac Bank officials and three staffers of Hotel Nidmahal.
Nasir said the victims came to the DB office yesterday afternoon to look at their valuables but the magistrate did not allow them as they failed to present sufficient
information about their ornaments.
Besides, many of the locker holders have no papers while others could not estimate the price of their valuables, he said.
Brac Bank Marketing Chief Abedur Rahman Sikder told The Daily Star, “There are some legal problems and gaps in returning the ornaments and valuables to the owners."
In a reply, he said, “We could not estimate the amount of the looted ornaments yet as the customers did not submit specific information."
In replying to a question, he said, "If the court orders, we would subsidise the customers besides the recovered amount."
The bank authorities had earlier pledged that they would compensate the affected customers within 90 days of the heist.