Detectives yesterday arrested four members of a ring counterfeiting bank bills, seized notes worth Tk 24 lakh and busted their mini-factory in the capital’s Uttara.
The detainees are Mominur Rashid Babu alias Driver Babu, 25, Mohammad Rubel alias Chashma Rubel, 28, Mohammad Shaheen Miah, 24, and Khokan Miah, 26.
The factory at a flat on the third floor of house no-197 near Jamtola Mosque at East Azampur under Dakkhinkhan Police Station was busted in a drive by detective personnel around 4:00pm, Mashiur Rahman, additional deputy commissioner (ADC) of Detective Branch (West), told The Daily Star.
The law enforcers confiscated fake notes of Tk 1000 and Tk 500. They also seized huge quantity of specialised papers, inks, gums, a laptop, two printers and a scanner, he said.
Quoting the detainees, Mashiur said the ring members had been making fake bank bills at the house since September and had already circulated fake currencies worth Tk 25 crore in the capital and elsewhere of the country.
Of the detainees, Shaheen was earlier held for four times and Babu thrice over the same charge. “But they resumed business after acquiring bails from the courts,” he added.
The criminals involved in the business of fake currencies intensified their activities targeting the upcoming Durga Puja and Eid, said ADC Mashiur.
According to officials of police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), many other gangs involving several hundred people are active in the making of fake currencies, including Bangladeshi taka, Indian rupee and US dollar.
Police sources said in last five years, they arrested over 500 people for their involvement in making fake notes while Rab arrested 1,213 people from January 2007 till date.
However, many of those, who had been arrested several times, resumed their businesses soon after they came out of the jail on bails from the courts.
-With The Daily Star input
