Fake notes worth Tk1cr seized near Rohingya camp in Teknaf; 2 held
BGB says the group planned to circulate counterfeit notes in cattle markets and shopping centres ahead of Eid-ul-Adha.
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has arrested two members of an alleged counterfeit currency racket, including a Rohingya man, and seized fake notes worth nearly Tk1 crore along with equipment used to produce the currency in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf upazila.
The arrests were made during a raid at around 4:30pm today (25 May) at a rented house adjacent to the Jadimura Rohingya camp in Hnila union of Teknaf, said Major Mubasshir Nakib Tarfdar, deputy commander of BGB Battalion-2.
The detainees are Azizur Rahman, a Rohingya resident of the Shalbon camp in Teknaf who works as a tomtom driver, and Md Nazmul, a resident of Brahmanbaria district.
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During the raid, BGB members recovered counterfeit Tk200, Tk500 and Tk1,000 notes worth nearly Tk1 crore.
They also seized a laptop, colour printer, golden foil paper, security tags, watermarked paper, partially printed notes, glue, cutters and watermark-making dies used in producing fake currency.
Major Mubasshir Nakib Tarfdar said BGB carried out the operation based on intelligence reports that a racket was planning to circulate a large volume of counterfeit notes in Rohingya camps, cattle markets and shopping centres ahead of Eid-ul-Adha.
He added that the group had been supplying counterfeit notes to different areas, particularly targeting cattle markets and commercial centres ahead of Eid.
Legal proceedings against the detainees are underway, he added.
