Fake note maker held

The Detective Branch of police nabbed six people and recovered fake currency amounting to Tk 1 crore from their possessions in separate drives in the capital between Thursday afternoon and early yesterday.
The law enforcers also seized a laptop, a printer and currency-making materials from the counterfeiters.
The arrestees are Md Selim, 30, Jalal Uddin, 45, Abid Mia, 42, Shahidul Islam, 30, his wife Mariam Begum, 20, and Rozina Begum, 30.
The detectives produced them before a press briefing at the DB headquarters yesterday.
Moshiur Rahman, additional deputy commissioner (west) of DB, told newsmen that Selim counterfeited the notes while the others were assigned to sell those to retailers across the country.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of DB police arrested Rozina along with fake currencies from Motijheel area around 2:30pm on Thursday.
Following information prised out of her, police arrested Shahidul and Mariam while they were selling fake notes at Mirpur on Thursday afternoon.
The team also raided a house at South Mugda and arrested Selim, Jalal and Abid. It recovered fake currencies and currency-making materials and equipment from there.
Selim told journalists that he learnt about producing counterfeit notes from Babul, an engineer in Rangpur. “I collect Tk 100 notes, remove the prints with chemicals and then turn those into Tk 500 notes.”
He also admitted to making fake notes of Tk 1,000 on new pieces of paper.
Shahidul and Mariam confessed that they were assigned to sell the fake notes in different markets.
Masudur Rahman, additional deputy commissioner (media and communication) of DB, said the gang led by Selim had been making forged notes in his rented house at South Mugda.
"Jalal and Abid used to purchase new notes in denomination of Tk 100 from note sellers at Gulistan and different banks. They then supplied each piece of the original note to Selim in exchange for Tk 130," added the DB official.
Selim then turned the notes into Tk 500 ones using chemicals and the printer, mentioned Masudur. The five others used to sell the fake notes to the retailers from Barisal, Rajbari, Satkhira and Khulna districts.