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Fake curency note racket: NIA arrests 14 people
Clean Media Correspondent
New Delhi, Jan 10 (CMC): In nationwide raids, NIA has arrested 14 people and smashed an international racket which involved in the smuggling and distribution of fake Indian currency notes being supplied by Pakistani agents through the porous Indo-Bangla and Indo-Nepal borders.
According to a NIA spokesperson, there was information that few individuals belonging to Malda of West Bengal were engaged in organised smuggling and circulation of high quality and high value fakes notes, suspected of having been printed in Pakistan, via Bangladesh and Nepal.
Morgen Hussain and Rakib Sheikh of Jamsedtola, Mahabbatpur of Malda were coordinating, smuggling and circulation of the notes across the country with active connivance of many operations.
Those arrested were members of an international network which manufactured and printed high quality high value FICN in Pakistan and smuggled them into India via Bangladesh and circulated them across length and breadth of the country, the spokesperson said in a statement.
The modus operandi of the network is that huge quantities of high-quality notes in the denominations of Rs 1000, Rs 500 and Rs 100, printed in Pakistan are smuggled to Bangladesh via air route and then across the border (fencing) into India.
The accused persons with their aides collect the notes and distribute them to the agents spread all over the country through trains and other modes of transports.
They used bank accounts and ATMs for transferring back the genuine currency earned out of circulating the fake currency to the suppliers of the same based in Malda.
The members of the gang were in communication with the Pakistani supported suppliers of fake notes operating from Bangladesh.
The NIA registered a case after getting a sanction from the Home Ministry and conducted nationwide raids for search and seizures after obtaining warrants from the competent court.
The NIA had formed 12 teams in West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Haryana.
The top member of the gang -- Morjen Hussain -- was arrested after a difficult operation in a remote part of Malda and after that simultaneous raids were conducted across the country and searches and arrest were made, the spokesman said.
Searches have led to the recovery of large number of ATM cards, bank passbooks, SIM cards and high value FICN being used in smuggling and circulation of fake notes.
The objective of the investigation of this case is to take legal action against key figures who are involved in smuggling and circulation of FICN of Pakistani origin via Bangladesh by conducting an effective investigation covering the entire country and also to unravel larger conspiracy to destabilise the monetary stability of India.
Among those arrested were Habibul Rahman, Abdul Mutalik and Prashant Mondal from Tamil Nadu, Malikharjun from Karnataka, Morjen, Manik Sheik and Hamidul from Malda in West Bengal.
Bhadur Yadav and Saleem were arrested from Delhi and Moraadaba respectively and Sajib ul Haq, Anwar, Jamal Sheik and Akram from Hyderabad.
Fake curency note racket: NIA arrests 14 people
Clean Media Correspondent
New Delhi, Jan 10 (CMC): In nationwide raids, NIA has arrested 14 people and smashed an international racket which involved in the smuggling and distribution of fake Indian currency notes being supplied by Pakistani agents through the porous Indo-Bangla and Indo-Nepal borders.
According to a NIA spokesperson, there was information that few individuals belonging to Malda of West Bengal were engaged in organised smuggling and circulation of high quality and high value fakes notes, suspected of having been printed in Pakistan, via Bangladesh and Nepal.
Morgen Hussain and Rakib Sheikh of Jamsedtola, Mahabbatpur of Malda were coordinating, smuggling and circulation of the notes across the country with active connivance of many operations.
Those arrested were members of an international network which manufactured and printed high quality high value FICN in Pakistan and smuggled them into India via Bangladesh and circulated them across length and breadth of the country, the spokesperson said in a statement.
The modus operandi of the network is that huge quantities of high-quality notes in the denominations of Rs 1000, Rs 500 and Rs 100, printed in Pakistan are smuggled to Bangladesh via air route and then across the border (fencing) into India.
The accused persons with their aides collect the notes and distribute them to the agents spread all over the country through trains and other modes of transports.
They used bank accounts and ATMs for transferring back the genuine currency earned out of circulating the fake currency to the suppliers of the same based in Malda.
The members of the gang were in communication with the Pakistani supported suppliers of fake notes operating from Bangladesh.
The NIA registered a case after getting a sanction from the Home Ministry and conducted nationwide raids for search and seizures after obtaining warrants from the competent court.
The NIA had formed 12 teams in West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Haryana.
The top member of the gang -- Morjen Hussain -- was arrested after a difficult operation in a remote part of Malda and after that simultaneous raids were conducted across the country and searches and arrest were made, the spokesman said.
Searches have led to the recovery of large number of ATM cards, bank passbooks, SIM cards and high value FICN being used in smuggling and circulation of fake notes.
The objective of the investigation of this case is to take legal action against key figures who are involved in smuggling and circulation of FICN of Pakistani origin via Bangladesh by conducting an effective investigation covering the entire country and also to unravel larger conspiracy to destabilise the monetary stability of India.
Among those arrested were Habibul Rahman, Abdul Mutalik and Prashant Mondal from Tamil Nadu, Malikharjun from Karnataka, Morjen, Manik Sheik and Hamidul from Malda in West Bengal.
Bhadur Yadav and Saleem were arrested from Delhi and Moraadaba respectively and Sajib ul Haq, Anwar, Jamal Sheik and Akram from Hyderabad.
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