Five held with fake Indian rupees
A team of Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested five members of a currency forgery gang and recovered fake Indian rupees, worth Rs 15.34 lakh in the capital's Mohammadpur area on Monday night.
The arrestees -- Shamsul Haque, Bulbul Ahmed, Khairul Islam, Sahin Akther and Alamgir Hossain -- prepare fake rupees in a rented flat in Mohammadpur and sell those to Indian nationals in bordering area of Chapainawabganj, said Abdul Baten, joint-commissioner of DB police, at a press briefing at media center of Dhaka Metropolitan Police yesterday.
Detectives claimed that fake Indian currency used to be made in Pakistan. Police said Shamsul, who is the ringleader, received training on making fake Indian currency from one Danesh, a Pakistani national.
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