Prayagraj: Over time, racketeers involved with circulation of counterfeit money in UP have been able to dodge authorities using code words that are continuously shifting, and consequently, difficult to grasp.
Their existing vocabulary, as an instance, contains words such as’maal’ for imitation money,’chhota’ for Rs 500 bogus notice and also’bada’ for Rs 2000 counterfeit notice.
This was decoded from the Special Task Force (STF) that broke an interstate highway at town.
The STF arrsted a Vital racketeer named as Rupesh Kumar, resident of Nawabganj, on Tuesday at Kydganj Region.
Fake currency worth Rs 1 lakh was seized from his possession.
His arrest has assisted UP authorities bust the bogus money rakhet working in the nation.
Lately, there wasn’t any pumping of counterfeit money from Indo-Bangladesh boundary to UP cities throughout the West Bengal Assembly elections along with also the lockdown period.
Tests also revealed that requirement for fake notes of Rs 500 was considerably higher compared to fake notes of Rs 2,000 since racketeers would rather function at rural markets to circulate bogus currency.
Deputy SP (STF) Navendu Kumar told TOI,”Aside from regularly shifting the modus operandi, racketeers now use words such as maal for fake money and Bada and Chota for Rs 2000 and Rs 500 bogus notes .” “The captured fake money is so finely published that it is not a simple job to distinguish between fake and real notes in 1 appearance,” he added.
The DSP farther stated that Vaishav Nagar, Jayainpur, Kalika Chak and Chauriyantpur at Malda areas of West Bengal are all hotspots for smuggling counterfeit money throughout the nation, and all of racketeers collect fake money notes from Indo-Bangladesh boundary for flow in nation.
“A racketeer pays $40,000 in money (actual notes) into the provider to be able to acquire Rs 1 lakh counterfeit money in denominations of Rs 2000,” said the official, including”The racketeer must pay Rs 45,000 real currency to the provider if he needs fake currency worth Rs 1 lakh in denominations of Rs 500.” The DSP said that racketeers frequently rope in destitute school students or jobless youths to smuggle in bogus money consignments from Malda into East and West UP districts on the grounds of commission.
Smugglers favor train paths for transport of fake money consignments since they find railroad the most secure mode of transportation to their nefarious designs.
The racketeers don’t keep the bogus money at their houses and hand it on to the representatives at the oldest.
STF is now searching for a single Ramu Sahureal estate agent of Atrampur (Nawabganj) at trans-Ganga region, who had been recruiting youths and representatives to bring imitation money consignments out of Malda and Farakka at West Bengal.
STF stated that Ramu is the central racketeer that has been circulating counterfeit money in East UP districts such as Prayagraj.
Intelligence agencies also have begun to understand about a single Deepak Mandal, resident of Jaiyanpur village (Malda), his brother Shyam Mandal and Creator Kanchan Mandal, that had been key operators at draining fake money to various countries of the nation.
The special cell of Delhi police had detained Deepak and seized fake currency worth Rs 5.50 lakh from his possession on December 12, 2017.
Deepak was explained by the authorities among the major players at the fake money racket that had been busy on the Indo-Bangladesh border.
He was then bailed out.
The racketeers involved with fake money flow regularly seen Kaliachakarea and Malda in West Bengal.
On July 19, 2019, a group of STF (Prayagraj device ) had detained a man named as Achchelal Chaurasia alias Bachche Lal Chaurasia, resident of Pratapgarh, together with his four accomplices, also seized fake currency worth Rs 2.42 lakh in their possession, hence demonstrating that the menace of counterfeit money rackets prevails because a very long moment.
Ever-changing modus operandi of fake currency racket baffles police
