MEDIA reports say, criminal gangs producing and circulating counterfeit money and doping people to take away their cash are active this moment. They are targeting the Eid-ul-Azha market when big amount of money is transacted by the people, specially in buying sacrificial cattle and shopping kitchen items. Armed robbers also are in action targeting cattle traders in different parts of the southwestern region of the country ahead of Eid. These criminal activities have created serious concern among the general public.
The criminals avail the opportunity to supply fake notes as those often remain undetected in the crowded cattle markets where sellers of cattle are mostly innocent rural people. Report said Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Thursday detained five persons, including a former official of a state-run bank, and recovered a large amount of fake currency worth more than one crore taka from their possession.
They recovered the money and other materials used in producing fake notes in an overnight raids in their hideout at city’s Banasree and Jurain areas. They also seized fake money making equipment and it is guessed that many such groups are active in the market now to cheat the people and make their fortune. Needless to say they operate under the shelter of powerful people and get bail from court almost regularly after being arrested. This business is going almost unchecked. According to media reports the RAB claimed that the gang was planning to make fake notes worth Tk. 10 crores and circulate them across the country during Eid festival. There is strong reason to believe that this is not the only gang active in this type of crime.
On the other hand doping gangs already robbed around Tk. 10 lakh from twelve cattle traders using sedatives which made them unconscious in five incidents in the southwestern region during the last four days. Media reports elaborated that in another incident fifteen cattle sellers were robbed of Tk. 30 lakh and their belonging on Sunday night by a gang of around 30 masked criminals while returning homes to Phulbaria village in Mirpur Upazila of Kushtia after selling cattle at Baniapara Bazar under Kushtia Sadar Upazila. Police admitted that incidents of doping and robbery increase ahead of any festival like Eid. The miscreants commit the crimes mostly in buses, shopping centres, launch terminals, railway stations and branches of commercial banks.
In our view the law enforcers should take stringer measures to root out the criminal gangs who are out to cheat ordinary people and cause harm to normal trade and commerce. It is part of a bigger crime of money laundering in which both local and outside agents are active. There must be also stringer action against doping because gang members not only take away money but also endanger people’s life.
The criminals avail the opportunity to supply fake notes as those often remain undetected in the crowded cattle markets where sellers of cattle are mostly innocent rural people. Report said Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Thursday detained five persons, including a former official of a state-run bank, and recovered a large amount of fake currency worth more than one crore taka from their possession.
They recovered the money and other materials used in producing fake notes in an overnight raids in their hideout at city’s Banasree and Jurain areas. They also seized fake money making equipment and it is guessed that many such groups are active in the market now to cheat the people and make their fortune. Needless to say they operate under the shelter of powerful people and get bail from court almost regularly after being arrested. This business is going almost unchecked. According to media reports the RAB claimed that the gang was planning to make fake notes worth Tk. 10 crores and circulate them across the country during Eid festival. There is strong reason to believe that this is not the only gang active in this type of crime.
On the other hand doping gangs already robbed around Tk. 10 lakh from twelve cattle traders using sedatives which made them unconscious in five incidents in the southwestern region during the last four days. Media reports elaborated that in another incident fifteen cattle sellers were robbed of Tk. 30 lakh and their belonging on Sunday night by a gang of around 30 masked criminals while returning homes to Phulbaria village in Mirpur Upazila of Kushtia after selling cattle at Baniapara Bazar under Kushtia Sadar Upazila. Police admitted that incidents of doping and robbery increase ahead of any festival like Eid. The miscreants commit the crimes mostly in buses, shopping centres, launch terminals, railway stations and branches of commercial banks.
In our view the law enforcers should take stringer measures to root out the criminal gangs who are out to cheat ordinary people and cause harm to normal trade and commerce. It is part of a bigger crime of money laundering in which both local and outside agents are active. There must be also stringer action against doping because gang members not only take away money but also endanger people’s life.
