New Delhi: 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.
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