Fake currency: Arrested Bengal resident part of Bangladesh-linked international racket

A nonmigratory of Kaliachak of Malda territory successful West Bengal, who was arrested connected Thursday with a immense consignment of fake Indian currency notes, is portion of an planetary racket involving Bangladesh from wherever the FICN originated.

The nonmigratory has been identified arsenic Manwar Sheikh and helium utilized to proviso fake notes successful Maharashtra aft collecting them done a Bangaleshi link.

Sources said during interrogation by the sleuths of the peculiar task unit (STF) of Kolkata, who arrested him from a autobus depot astatine Esplanade successful cardinal Kolkata successful the morning, the accused confessed that the FICN consignment that helium brought to Kolkata was not meant for circulation successful the metropolis but to beryllium taken to Nasik successful Maharashtra.

Sources added that Sheikh runs a thriving food trading concern astatine Nasik, which involves immense currency transactions. His volition was the circulation of those FICNs done currency transactions.

The investigating officials judge that the relation of the arrested accused is chiefly that of a “circulation agent”. He utilized to person the FICN consignment coming from Bangladesh astatine Malda, archetypal bringing them to Kolkata and past taking the aforesaid to Nasik to get them circulated done currency transactions progressive with his food trading business.

Sources said that the investigating officials were truly amazed astatine the insubstantial and printing prime of the FICN consignment seized from the accused, wherever it was astir intolerable for the communal men to place them arsenic fake.

The seized FICN were successful Rs 500 denomination and the full look worth of the seized consignment was Rs 3,00,000. The investigating officials judge that the arrested accused is portion of a large planetary FICN racket and are besides not ruling retired the engagement of panic groups there.

During the past mates of years, determination had been a bid of FICN hauls by sleuths successful Kolkata and successful astir cases, the arrested accused persons were residents of Malda district.

A fewer months back, a peculiar tribunal of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) successful Kolkata, had sentenced 7 persons to 7 years of rigorous imprisonment successful narration to their engagement successful a cross-border FICN racket. The eighth accused idiosyncratic successful the case, Abdul Rahim, identified arsenic a Bangladeshi citizen, continued to beryllium untraceable.