With the arrest of a 27-year-old Nepali, the Delhi Police on Monday claimed to have busted an international syndicate of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICNs) allegedly having links with United Nations Security Council (UNSC) designated global terrorist Dawood Ibrahim.
Police have also recovered a total of Rs 5.50 lakh in denomination of Rs 2,000 notes from the possession of the accused, which were transported in Country from Pakistan through Indo-Nepal border.
The accused has been identified as Aslam Ansari, a resident of Parsa district in Nepal. According to Pramod Singh Kushwaha, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Special Cell, on Saturday, police got specific inputs that one Nepal national would reach Delhi at Nehru Place Bus Terminal around 2 pm to deliver a big consignment of FICN to one of his contacts. "Acting on the specific inputs, a trap was laid and Ansari was arrested around 3 pm. High quality FICNs of Rs 2,000 amounting Rs 5.50 lakh were recovered from his possession," said the DCP.
"Interrogation revealed that Ansari came to India around seven years ago and had been supplying notes from past five years. He used to receive FICNs from three Nepal nationals Abdul Rehman, Sajjad and Sher Mohammad," said the DCP.
"Ansari used to further supply the FICN in India through other members of this syndicate, who are residents of Raxaul district in Bihar," the DCP said.
Earlier, the fake notes were pumped into India from Bangladesh through Malda district of West Bengal, but now the FICN is suspected being smuggled from Pakistan via Nepal borders. "Ansari had already supplied the FICN amounting to Rs 1 crore in last one year," the DCP said, adding that further investigation is going on.