Money minted amid Eid shopping binge

Daily Sun, 28 July 2012

Detective police arrested six persons, including two females, along with forged notes worth about Tk 10 million from the city’s Mughda area on Thursday night.

The arrested money-makers were identified as Rojina Begum, 30, Morium, 22, Jalaluddin, 40, Abid Hossain, 42, Shahidul Islam, 30, and Mohammad Selim.

On a tip-off, a DB team first arrested Selim from a flat at South Mugda with a laptop, a printer, materials used for making counterfeit notes and seized fake notes amounting to Tk 10 million.

Later, on the basis of his statement, the team arrested five others from different parts of the capital.

“During preliminary interrogation, the arrested persons admitted to their involvement in marketing fake currency notes for long,” Additional Deputy Commissioner (West) of the DB police Moshiur Rahman told journalists.

The arrested also admitted that they were forging local currency notes targeting the forthcoming Eid festival.

The suspects along with the seized counterfeit notes were produced before the journalists at the DB office Friday.

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