Detective Branch of police on Tuesday disclosed that they arrested six members of a counterfeit money making syndicate in the capital’s Mirpur area.
They were detained with the counterfeit notes to the tune of Tk 50 lakh and note producing materials from their possession, the DB officials said.
The detainees were identified as Md Shafiqul Islam alias Shamim, Md Shohagh Adhikary, Md Shumon Ahmed, Md Baizid Uddin, Md Siddiqur Rahman, and Jesmin Akhter.
The group was arrested several times earlier over the same charges.
This time, Tk 50 lakh counterfeit notes and various machinery used for making the money were seized from them, said Sheikh Nazmul Alam, deputy commissioner of DB.
Shamim have been circulating the counterfeit money in the market for six to seven years, added the DB officials.
They were planning to circulate the seized amount in the market ahead of the Ramadan, said DB additional deputy commissioner Saiful Islam.
The DB official said the detainees confessed that they were circulating counterfeit notes in retail and wholesale markets in and outside Dhaka worth Tk 1 lakh at cost of Tk 10,000 or Tk 15,000.
Source: New Age