A consignment of forged Indian currency notes of Rs 6.40 crore was recovered at Dhaka Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport yesterday less than two months after the arrest of a smuggler of such fake currencies in the capital.
Tipped-off, a team of customs intelligence searched the airport's cargo section around noon and recovered the Indian currencies.
Those have been brought here from Pakistan in a Qatar Airways cargo flight, said Nur-e-Alam Siddiqui, assistant superintendent of police in the Armed Police Battalion.
“We found six bundles of Indian currencies with the same serial number. This made us suspect that these are fake,” said Moinul Khan, director general of customs intelligence.
On March 3, Detective Branch of police arrested a smuggler identified as Mokhlesur Rahman with fake notes of Rs 1.5 lakh, which exposed a smuggling network operating from Pakistan to India, using Bangladesh as a transit point.
He was about to transport them to Sylhet, where they are in huge demand among illegal cow traders and narcotics dealers, Jahangir Alam, assistant commissioner of DB police had told The Daily Star.
28/04/14 The Daily Star
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Tipped-off, a team of customs intelligence searched the airport's cargo section around noon and recovered the Indian currencies.
Those have been brought here from Pakistan in a Qatar Airways cargo flight, said Nur-e-Alam Siddiqui, assistant superintendent of police in the Armed Police Battalion.
“We found six bundles of Indian currencies with the same serial number. This made us suspect that these are fake,” said Moinul Khan, director general of customs intelligence.
On March 3, Detective Branch of police arrested a smuggler identified as Mokhlesur Rahman with fake notes of Rs 1.5 lakh, which exposed a smuggling network operating from Pakistan to India, using Bangladesh as a transit point.
He was about to transport them to Sylhet, where they are in huge demand among illegal cow traders and narcotics dealers, Jahangir Alam, assistant commissioner of DB police had told The Daily Star.
28/04/14 The Daily Star
