Fake notes with face value of over Rs 1 crore seized in 2018
New Delhi: Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) pumped from different countries or prepared inside the country plays an evil role in disturbing the economy of the country. Keeping a tab on the movement of racketeers, the Delhi Police has recovered more than Rs one crore Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) in the year 2018.
The Delhi Police data accessed by Millennium Post claimed that more than Rs 1,17,41,940 have been recovered by city police from January to May 31. Police claimed that this year they have also registered 19 cases and arrested eight persons in this regard. In the year 2017 till May 31, more than 30 cases were registered and 15 persons were nabbed.
Police further claimed that in the year 2016, FICN with face value of Rs 5.74 crore were recovered and 80 cases were registered and while in 2017, there were 46 cases in which police recovered more than Rs 6 crore.
Investigation in the cases registered with the recovery of counterfeit currency in 2016 revealed that foreign agencies allegedly played key role. Due to high security and checking at the Indo-Nepal borders, there was a possibility that the accused might have shifted the base from neighbouring country to another country. Police claimed that the main route of pumping of FICNs from Pakistan was earlier through Nepal. Other routes are via three different countries.
In the cases registered in 2017, investigators disclosed that the Indo-Bangladesh border was used for the purpose and the trend was also found in 2018.
In one of the recent cases, a team of Special Cell nabbed two persons in April. Police claimed that the accused were circulating Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICNs) being trafficked through the Indo-Bangladesh border. It was also revealed that FICN was being pumped by these racketeers in various parts of the country including Delhi through this route.
Special Cell of Delhi Police on Sunday claimed that they arrested Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) trafficker from Rohtak on May 31. During interrogation, the accused disclosed that he used to procure the FICNs as well as drugs from one of the states from different sources, who used to smuggle the currency notes from Pakistan via Bangladesh border.
