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Fake Indian currency notes worth Rs 12 crore seized since January - The Times of India
NEW DELHI: Fake currency with a total face value of Rs 12.85 crore was seized until September this year from countries such as Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand and UAE, with Pakistanis acting as carriers in most cases. A significant part of these seizures were made from outbound flights from Gulf nations, after they landed in destinations like Dhaka or Colombo.
While Pakistani carriers were involved in six of the 13 cases of FICN seizures from abroad between January and September this year, Bangladeshis and Nepalese nationals were involved in three cases each. The seizure having the highest face value was made at Dhaka airport, when the Bangladesh customs seized a FICN consignment (of Rs 6.40 crore) from the cargo section. The consignment, brought from Pakistan in a Qatar Airways cargo flight, comprised six bundles of FICN with same serial number.
Dhaka airport was also the venue of other high face value FICN seizures, with Rs 1.71 crore found on a Pakistani carrier on June 30 and Rs 1.65 crore being caught on August 31 from Bangladeshi national Khalil Bepary after he was intercepted by customs intelligence upon his return from Dubai by an Emirates airlines flight. In addition, Rs 50 lakh each was confiscated twice at Dhaka airport, first on April 19 and then on July 13. In the first instance, FICN was seized from Abdul Rehman, a Bangladeshi resident carrying a Pakistani passport. The second Rs 50-lakh seizure was from Bangladeshi citizen Mohammad Idris, as he flew in from Pakistan via Dubai.
Nepal, for long a conduit nation for FICN coming in from Pakistan, accounted for seizures with a total face value of Rs 45.73 lakh. Among those arrested for smuggling FICN is Nepali politician and businessman Yunus Ansari. A seizure of Rs 34 lakh FICN was made from the Lalitpur residence of Ansari, said to be associated with ISI and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. He was arrested by the Nepal police, months after his release from prison in another case of FICN seizure worth Rs 25 lakh.
Other places in Nepal from where FICN was confiscated are Bara Nepal, Panchthar and Birgunj. Interestingly, a student of Class 9 was arrested in the Bara Nepal seizure case.
FICN seizures were also reported from Bangkok, Colombo and Abu Dhabi. A consignment of Rs 15 lakh FICN was seized from Pakistani national Muhammad Ali, travelling by a Sri Lankan flight from Karachi to Colombo. It was sent by FICN operator Aslam Shera on request of his Pakistani associate Rizean, who is imprisoned in Sri Lanka in a heroin smuggling case.
Based on intelligence passed on by R&AW, Thai authorities arrested 3 FICN operatives, including 2 Pakistanis and a Canadian of Pakistani origin, on July 22 in front of Pakistani embassy in Bangkok.
Similarly, Rs 47.27 lakh in fake Indian currency was seized in September from Abu Dhabi, UAE. Four Pakistanis identified as Shiraz Nazir Ahmad, Mohammad Abdus Rabbani, Master Farooq Zaman and Aamir Reza Darsi, were arrested in the case.
NEW DELHI: Fake currency with a total face value of Rs 12.85 crore was seized until September this year from countries such as Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand and UAE, with Pakistanis acting as carriers in most cases. A significant part of these seizures were made from outbound flights from Gulf nations, after they landed in destinations like Dhaka or Colombo.
While Pakistani carriers were involved in six of the 13 cases of FICN seizures from abroad between January and September this year, Bangladeshis and Nepalese nationals were involved in three cases each. The seizure having the highest face value was made at Dhaka airport, when the Bangladesh customs seized a FICN consignment (of Rs 6.40 crore) from the cargo section. The consignment, brought from Pakistan in a Qatar Airways cargo flight, comprised six bundles of FICN with same serial number.
Dhaka airport was also the venue of other high face value FICN seizures, with Rs 1.71 crore found on a Pakistani carrier on June 30 and Rs 1.65 crore being caught on August 31 from Bangladeshi national Khalil Bepary after he was intercepted by customs intelligence upon his return from Dubai by an Emirates airlines flight. In addition, Rs 50 lakh each was confiscated twice at Dhaka airport, first on April 19 and then on July 13. In the first instance, FICN was seized from Abdul Rehman, a Bangladeshi resident carrying a Pakistani passport. The second Rs 50-lakh seizure was from Bangladeshi citizen Mohammad Idris, as he flew in from Pakistan via Dubai.
Nepal, for long a conduit nation for FICN coming in from Pakistan, accounted for seizures with a total face value of Rs 45.73 lakh. Among those arrested for smuggling FICN is Nepali politician and businessman Yunus Ansari. A seizure of Rs 34 lakh FICN was made from the Lalitpur residence of Ansari, said to be associated with ISI and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. He was arrested by the Nepal police, months after his release from prison in another case of FICN seizure worth Rs 25 lakh.
Other places in Nepal from where FICN was confiscated are Bara Nepal, Panchthar and Birgunj. Interestingly, a student of Class 9 was arrested in the Bara Nepal seizure case.
FICN seizures were also reported from Bangkok, Colombo and Abu Dhabi. A consignment of Rs 15 lakh FICN was seized from Pakistani national Muhammad Ali, travelling by a Sri Lankan flight from Karachi to Colombo. It was sent by FICN operator Aslam Shera on request of his Pakistani associate Rizean, who is imprisoned in Sri Lanka in a heroin smuggling case.
Based on intelligence passed on by R&AW, Thai authorities arrested 3 FICN operatives, including 2 Pakistanis and a Canadian of Pakistani origin, on July 22 in front of Pakistani embassy in Bangkok.
Similarly, Rs 47.27 lakh in fake Indian currency was seized in September from Abu Dhabi, UAE. Four Pakistanis identified as Shiraz Nazir Ahmad, Mohammad Abdus Rabbani, Master Farooq Zaman and Aamir Reza Darsi, were arrested in the case.
