Fake currency racket kingpin in Bangladesh, says SOG

Sometime back, the Vadodara Special Operations Group had arrested a few operatives of a fake currency network bringing in bogus currency from Bangladesh via West Bengal.

Sometime back, the Vadodara Special Operations Group (SOG) had arrested a few operatives of a fake currency network bringing in bogus currency from Bangladesh via West Bengal. Following that, an SOG team headed by Sub-Inspector A D Parmar conducted a joint operation with the West Bengal Police in West Bengal to nab the kingpin.

However, the alleged kingpin of the network, Mohammed Ikram Ali Sheikh, probably crossed over to Bangladesh. The SOG team returned home recently, empty-handed.

“It looks like the accused crossed over to Bangladesh. We could not arrest him. But the fact that counterfeit notes are coming from Bangladesh has been established,” said Inspector Karim Polra of the SOG.

Earlier, Mohammed Nazrul Sheikh (22) and Abdul Majid Sheikh (32) were arrested at Vadodara Railway Station with crockery and other items purchased with fake notes. During the course of investigation, SOG had found that Mohd Ikram Ali Sheikh from Baghmara Village in Malda District had given the notes to the two for circulating them in the country. The duo had around Rs 1 lakh in the form of 500 rupee notes, sixty thousand of which were fake.

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