Six held with illegal foreign currency
Police yesterday filed a case with Boalia Police Station against six businesspersons of Sona Mosque land port for possessing illegal foreign currency.
The case was recorded at 5pm, 18 hours after police detained seven people in possession of Tk 8.30 lakh and USD 7,000 from a customs official’s house in Rajshahi’s Uposhohor area.
One of the detained, Abdul Malek, who the police found possessing a revolver, was released upon showing valid documents of the firearm, said Abdullah Al Mamun, deputy commissioner of Detective Branch of police.
The six accused are Monirul Islam Jwel, Abu Sayeed Nayan, Ahsan Kabir Mithu, Bayazid Hossain, Abdul Mannan and Abu Hasan Rubel.
Police detained them at 11pm on Wednesday acting on information that some people were visiting the customs official’s house to bribe him after the official allowed them to import Indian cosmetics through false declaration.
“The seized money was in a bag with one of them, but we did not find any evidence of giving the money away to the official,” the officer said.
“We will write to senior customs officials for enquiring into why the official allowed them inside his house with illegal foreign currency,” he said.
Police officials claimed they had information that the accused, in connivance with customs officials, recently imported Indian cosmetics and paid way below the required amount of tax through false declaration.
During interrogation, the accused told police it was normal for them to carrthe money, but they could not show valid documents for having the foreign currency, officer Al Mamun said.
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