14 DAY TRIAL // Bangladeshi police have found missing security researcher Tanvir Hassan Zoha, alive yet disoriented, and have returned him home to his family, local newspaper BDNews24 reports.
Zoha's family members say that the authorities found him yesterday wandering the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital. Police officers approached him for questioning and soon recognized the missing man as Zoha.
A police spokesperson said that Zoha was found near a railway station in the capital's north side, somewhere near his home in the Kalabagan neighborhood.
Officers drove Zoha back to his home at around 01:30 AM, on Wednesday morning, deciding to call him in for questioning the following day, due to his disheveled state.
Zoha went missing for seven days
Zoha, 34, went missing almost a week ago after a jeep had pulled in from of his auto-rickshaw, and unidentified men had taken him and a friend. The second person was dropped off a few minutes later on the streets of Dhaka while Zoha never showed up home the following days.
Following the incident, police forces came under fire because they kept redirecting Zoha's family to other police stations, instead of starting an immediate investigation.
The story broke in the national and international media, and the case got a lot of attention due to Zoha's work - a security researcher who was investigating the Bangladesh bank cyber-heist in which crooks almost made off with $1 billion (only managed to steal $81 million).
Family members said that Zoha's disappearance had something to do with comments he gave to the press, blaming the Bangladesh central bank's administration for the heist.
Following the incident, not necessarily Zoha's comments, the governor and two deputy governors were forced to resign. Public opinion seemed to sway after Zoha's disappearance, and even the country's finance minister accused bank officials of being complicit in the heist due to glaring security holes.