Bank worker charged with stealing from missing Malasyian flight MH370 victims

A Malaysian bank official and her husband appeared in court charged with stealing more than £19,000 from the bank accounts of four victims of flight MH370.

Nur Shila Kanan, 33, who works at HSBC, and her 33-year-old husband Basheer Ahmad Maula Sahul Hameed, a mechanic, denied filtering the money from the accounts of four victims of the plane tragedy.

The couple, who have three children, allegedly withdrew money from the accounts of two Malaysians and two Chinese nationals via ATMs and electronic transfers between May 14 and July 8.

They pleaded not guilty to 16 charges when they appeared in a Kuala Lumpur court.

They could face at least 10 years in prison if found guilty of illegally transferring money electronically.

The thefts were discovered after employees at the Kuala Lumpur branch of HSBC, where Kanan has worked for ten years, noticed money had gone missing from victims’ accounts and called police.

Officers are still looking for another suspect, a Pakistani, who is believed to have had some of the money deposited into his bank account through an online transfer.

Flight 370 disappeared mysteriously in March with 239 people on board from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.