Three members of a gang involved in making and marketing fake bank notes were arrested by detectives early yesterday from the capital’s Jatrabari with fake Bangladeshi currencies worth Tk 2.05 lakh.
The detainees — Mehedi Hasan alias Samir, 38, his wife Shirin Akhter, 32, and their associate Sohel Elahi alias Apel, 26 — confessed that they had been doing the wholesale business of fake notes in different spots of the city, police said.
Mashiur Rahman, additional deputy commissioner of DB (north), said, “Acting on a tip-off, we arrested them from near Fatema CNG filling station on Bir Uttam ATM Haider Sarak early today [yesterday].”
“The fake notes include 17 pieces of Tk 500 bills and 12 of Tk 1,000 “, he told The Daily Star.
A case was filed against them with Jatrabari Police Station.
“The detainees had been carrying out the illegal business for the last one year. Of them, Apel was arrested last year with fake notes worth Tk 60,000, but he resumed business soon after coming out of jail on bail,” said the ADC, who led the drive yesterday.
Asked, he said in separate drives in the last one month, he arrested 13 members of three such gangs when fake notes worth over Tk 1.5 crore were recovered with huge raw materials and machinery from them.
Mashiur said he could detect at least 12 such gangs active in the capital while Rapid Action Battalion officials said they identified 11 other gangs.
Rab and police sources said as monitory transactions go high centring Eid, criminals involved in fake-note business also intensify their activities to cheat people.
-With The Daily Star input
