Currency counterfeiting ring busted in Rampura
The Detective Branch (DB) of police yesterday busted an Indian currency counterfeiting gang in the capital’s Rampura, arresting three people and recovering fake notes of Rs 21 lakh.
The arrestees were identified as Rafiqul Islam Khashru, Md Abdur Rahim and Jony D’Costa.
The DB team also recovered a computer, a colour machine, a lamination machine, a huge stash of fake currency-making paper, security seal and screen board.
“We have come to know that there are three forgery rings in the country now who only make fake Indian rupees,” Mashiur Rahman, deputy commissioner of DB (north) police, told The Daily Star yesterday.
In primary interrogation, the arrestees admitted that demand of fake Indian rupees is high ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, as a large amount of spices, cattle and clothes would be imported from India surrounding the festival.
Fake currency sellers in bordering districts of Rajshahi, Jashore and Chapainawabganj used to place demands, and the gang members supplied the rupees, said DC Mashiur.
The DB team conducted the drive and arrested the three based on a tip-off from 10 previously arrested members of another currency counterfeiting ring.
That group -- which only used to make fake Bangladeshi notes -- was also busted from Rampura on July 9.
Among the three arrestees of yesterday, Khashru and Rahim were arrested by police four to five times before and were involved in crime for the last seven years, said Mashiur.
“They put the group together and planned to make fake Indian rupees while in jail,” he said.
“We have got some details of retail sellers and other gang members, and now we are conducting drives in different areas to arrest them,” he added.
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