5 members of note forgery syndicate held in Dhaka
The Detective Branch of police said they have arrested five members of a note forgery syndicate during a drive in Dhaka's Paltan area today.
The arrestees are Md Hannan, an expert in printing notes; Kawsar, who prepared the paper; Md Arif, who used to maintain the accounts; and two suppliers Ibrahim and Khushi, said Mashiur Rahman, deputy commissioner of DB.
The detectives also recovered around Tk 57 lakh worth of fake notes, materials to prepare around five to six crore fake notes, special cloths to make fake notes and printers from their possession, the police official told The Daily Star.
According to police sources, as law enforcers generally increase their vigilance on circulation of fake notes and note forgery syndicates ahead of Eid festivals, the criminals decided to start their work after Eid-ul-Azha.
During the month-long special drive against fake notes, especially before Eid-ul-Azha, they were in hiding.
Later, they rented two flats for Tk 40,000 a month in the capital's Paltan area for the next six months and started making counterfeit notes of around Tk 5 lakh daily.
Recently, they started selling the notes in the capital's Shanir Akhra and Jatrabari areas, in Sylhet, and other districts of the country.
They used to sell fake notes of Tk 1 lakh for Tk 9,000 to Tk 13,000.
DC Mashiur said that a person named Shaheen, the financier of the syndicate who is also wanted in several cases, was arrested by police earlier.
The other arrested members of the syndicate are also wanted in a number of cases filed with different police stations, the official said.
"We have got names of some other associates of the syndicate and now conducting drives to arrest them," DC Mashiur added.
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