ANOTHER BANK MANAGER ARRESTED OVER ATM SCAMS

Jakarta, Feb. 5 (ANTARA) - Police have arrested another bank officer with the rank of manager suspected of involvement in ATM (Automatic Teller Machine) scams in Bandung, West Java, a spokesman said.

The suspect, identified by the initials ADS, was employed at Bank Danamon, and is the second ranking bank officer arrested so far for complicity in theft of customers' money through ATMs. The first one was AS, a manager at BCA bank, also in Bandung.

ADS is believed to have been involved in ATM break-ins since 2009, Commissioner General Ito Sumardi, head of the National Police's Criminal Investigation Department, said here on Friday.

But police had so far not found clues that there was a link between ADS and AS who were both nabbed in Bandung, he said.

Beside ADS, police had also arrested three people as suspects in the recent BCA ATM scams in Bali.

The tree, identified by their initials as YB, DI and AR, were arrested at Tanah Abang, central Jakarta.

ATM scams have happened over the past few weeks in Bali, Jakarta, Surabaya (East Java), and Bandung.

Some 230 people had reported to the police about the balance in their bank saving accounts having been reduced by mysterious hands.

Since the ATM scams happened, police have arrested a total of 40 people in different parts of Indonesia as suspects in the criminal practice.

Most of the suspects had used skimmers and spy cameras to copy bank clients' data including personal identification numbers (PINs) when the latter withdrew cash through ATMs. With the copied data, the suspects later reproduced bank clients' ATM cards and thus were able to take money from people's saving accounts.***