Nearly $35G Missing From Bank Accounts Of Malaysia Flight MH 370 Passengers





(Nina Golgwoski) Nearly $35,000 has been mysteriously withdrawn from four bank accounts belonging to victims of the doomed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 that vanished more than five months ago, according to local reports.

The transactions are believed to have occurred sometime in July, long after all 227 passengers and 12 crew members disappeared during that fateful March 8 flight, The Straits Times reported.

The bank, said to be in Kuala Lumpur but not specifically named, first noticed the withdrawals on July 18, according to Kuala Lumpur’s Senior Deputy Police Commissioner Tajuddin Md Isa.

It was reported to police on Aug. 2 following an internal investigation into the missing funds, which are said to total 111,000 ringgit or approximately $34,911.

“We have identified the suspects involved and are gathering more evidence before we take further action,” Datuk Tajuddin told reporters Thursday.

City Commercial Crime Investigation Department Chief Izany Abdul Ghany told the Straits Times that the suspects transferred funds from three passengers’ personal bank accounts into the account of a fourth passenger.

“The suspects then made an Internet transfer of RM 35,000 to another account, believed to be that of one of the suspects, two weeks prior to July 18 and made ATM withdrawals of RM 5,000 daily until the account was empty.

“We are now trying to trace the identity of the suspect who opened that account,” he said.

Search teams from multiple counties including the U.S. have participated in the search for the missing Boeing 777, which is suspected of having crashed somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean after taking off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

An underwater search for its remains has since been suspended but is set to resume early September, Australian officials previously said.