Four currency forgers held

The Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested four members of two separate money counterfeiting gangs and seized fake Indian rupees worth Rs 12.28 lakh and Bangladeshi currency worth Tk 20 lakh from their possessions on Tuesday night.

The arrestees -- Duruduzzaman Biswas alias Jaman, Tariqul Islam, Mojibur Rahman and Joynal Abedin -- were arrested from Dhaka, Gazipur and Rajshahi.

A team of DB (north) arrested Duruduzzaman and Tariqul from the capital's Farmgate area and Rajshahi and seized the fake Indian currencies from their possession, said Devdas Bhattacharya, additional commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) yesterday.

The DB team also seized equipment used for making fake notes, printers, laptops and scanners.

While addressing a briefing at DMP media centre, AC Devdas said the DB team first arrested Duruduzzaman in front of Shuktara Hotel at Farmgate. Duruduzzaman was involved in money counterfeiting business since 1988.

Duruduzzaman is an accused in six cases. He was arrested by Adabar police in April last year. After securing bail, he went back to his old profession.

Gleaning information from him, the team arrested Tariqul from Raipara area of Rajshahi along with Rs 10.28 lakh, said AC Devdas.

During primary interrogation, the arrestees admitted that they used to sell the fake rupees in the bordering areas. They used to sell one lakh rupees for Tk 8,000.

Meanwhile, in a separate drive, the DB's Serious Crime Unit arrested Mojibur and Joynal from the capital's Moghbazar and Gazipur.

A DB team arrested Mojibur and seized fake notes worth Tk 6 lakh from him while Joynal was arrested along with fake currencies worth Tk 14 lakh. They used to sell Tk 1 lakh for Tk 10,000 to 15,000.

The four were shown arrested in two cases filed with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar and Ramna police stations.