Fake Indian currency seizure

India will send investigation team

A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India will go to Bangladesh to investigate the trail of a huge consignment of fake Indian currency notes (FICN) seized at Chittagong port on September 21, reports Indian daily The Hindu.Bangladesh customs had seized Rs 2.71 crore in FICN from a container when it arrived at the port from UAE. “We will be sending a team to Bangladesh on October 7 to investigate the seizure of a huge consignment of FICN from Chittagong port. We are told that six persons have been detained for the crime and Bangladesh would give us access to interrogate these men,” said a senior NIA official.
Officials say Bangladesh is being used as a transit point by Pakistan to pump fake currency into India.
The NIA team will also probe the recovery of Rs 1.28 crore in FICN from a Bangladeshi national in Dhaka on September 22.
The NIA and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), the anti-crime and anti-terror unit of Bangladesh, have been working in close coordination ever since the Burdwan module of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JuMB) was unearthed in West Bengal last year. The visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Bangladesh in May this year has further helped the Indian agencies in getting information about terrorist elements and Pakistan-based groups involved in circulation of FICN operating out of Bangladesh.
After the PM’s visit, the two agencies signed a memorandum of understanding to share intelligence on fake currency notes and other terrorist modules on real-time basis.

Fake Indian currency seizure

India will send investigation team

A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India will go to Bangladesh to investigate the trail of a huge consignment of fake Indian currency notes (FICN) seized at Chittagong port on September 21, reports Indian daily The Hindu.Bangladesh customs had seized Rs 2.71 crore in FICN from a container when it arrived at the port from UAE. We will be sending a team to Bangladesh on October 7 to investigate the seizure of a huge consignment of FICN from Chittagong port. We are told that six persons have been detained for the crime and Bangladesh would give us access to interrogate these men, said a senior NIA official. Officials say Bangladesh is being used as a transit point by Pakistan to pump fake currency into India. The NIA team will also probe the recovery of Rs 1.28 crore in FICN from a Bangladeshi national in Dhaka on September 22. The NIA and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), the anti-crime and anti-terror unit of Bangladesh, have been working in close coordination ever since the Burdwan module of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JuMB) was unearthed in West Bengal last year. The visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Bangladesh in May this year has further helped the Indian agencies in getting information about terrorist elements and Pakistan-based groups involved in circulation of FICN operating out of Bangladesh. After the PMs visit, the two agencies signed a memorandum of understanding to share intelligence on fake currency notes and other terrorist modules on real-time basis.