They used to make fake banknotes
Staff Correspondent
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members seized Tk 10 lakh in fake banknotes along with equipment and chemicals used for making fake local and foreign currencies busting a house at Mirpur in the capital early yesterday. The Rab-4 members also arrested three members of the gang, which has been making fake currencies of different denominations for the last one and a half years. The arrestees are Imam Hossain, 35, Hasibur Rahman alias Shaon, 28 and Abdul Jalil alias Jewel, 40. Flight Lt M Asadur Rashid of Rab said that the gang used to apply chemicals to erase the prints on Tk 10 and Tk 100 notes first and then reprint those as Tk 50 and Tk 500 notes. The gang then sold each of the fake Tk 500 notes at Tk 150 to another gang who used to supply the notes at different markets in different districts in the northern part of the country. During the four-hour drive since 3:00am, a huge amount of blank sheets of paper, some half-printed fake notes, a computer and several scanning machines were seized from the hidden factory housed at the ground floor of Popular Housing at Barabagh in Mirpur. Besides, fake Euros and forged currencies of different other countries, including India, Iraq and Kuwait, were also recovered from the spot. Rab was interrogating the arrestees as of 7:30pm. Besides, Rab continued conducting raids at different areas in the city to arrest other members of the gang.
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