6 held with fake notes worth Tk 50 lakh in city

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Staff Reporter :
Detectives claimed to have arrested six persons for making fake currency and seized counterfeit notes of around Tk 50 lakh from their possession in the city’s Kamrangirchar area.
The arrestees are: Saiful Islam Rony, 31, Md Gias Uddin, 36, Md Ashar Ali, 39, Md Asif, 27, Md Jibon Bepari, 29 and Md Forkan, 27.
On information, a team of Detective Branch (DB) of police conducted a drive at an under-construction building in the area on Monday night and seized different equipment
used for producing fake notes, said Shahidul Islam, Assistant Commissioner of DB North.
The arrestees confessed to their involvement in producing fake currency notes, the DB official said.
A case was filed with Kamrangirchar Police Station in this connection.
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