Malaysian police said a bank employee and her husband had been detained over withdrawals of $31,000 from four bank accounts of passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
Izany Abdul-Ghany, Chief of Police in the Commercial Crime Investigation Department, said this in Kuala Lumpur on Friday.
Abdul-Ghany said the funds from the accounts of three passengers on the missing airliner were apparently transferred to a fourth account owned by another passenger.
He said: “Based on initial investigation, money from the accounts of three passengers on the missing airliner were transferred to a fourth account owned by another passenger.
“Several cash withdrawals were then made from the fourth account.”
Abdul-Ghany said all accounts were at the same bank and the bank’s Manager reported the suspicious transactions to the police on August 2.
He said investigators were also looking for a Pakistani man believed to be involved in the transaction.
Abdul-Ghany said the 32-year-old bank employee was being investigated for approving the renewal of the ATM card used to withdraw money from the fourth account.
A police crime officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: “This looks like an inside job.
“It will only be a matter of time before we get to the bottom of this.”
He said several withdrawals had been made at ATMs from the fourth account
The Beijing-bound flight MH370, with 239 people aboard, disappeared without a trace after it took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 8.
dpa/NAN.
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