Foreigners held with fake currencies in city

The Rapid Action Battalion arrested 10 people including nine foreigners along with huge amount of counterfeit notes and fake currency-making materials in Bashundhara residential area in the capital Sunday night.
The elite force detained the nine foreigners, all citizens of African countries, after foreigners’ involvement in producing fake currencies and cheating Bangladeshis was detected in the recent times.
Seven of the Sunday’s detainees are Cameroon citizens, who have been identified as Abdou Nassara, 35, Jean Claude, 40, Gonou Desire, 37, Mimba Serges, 37, Kambiwa Dieu Nedort, 43, Moguem Solo, 42, and Tiadeu Barnard, 34.
The rest are Ngonga Diasonama Merlin, 41, and Mutombo Nzail Yousouf, 44, both nationals of Congo, and a Bangladeshi Mare Moyna Poroi Taylor.
Addressing a press briefing at its Agargaon office in the capital, RAB-2 commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Md Mohiuddin Ahmed said the gang used to trap people to sell fake dollars to them.
He said that five of the nine foreigners could not show passports and the remaining four had their passports with their visas expired.
He said that the foreigners had been staying in the country by marrying Bangladeshi nationals.
The RAB-2 commanding officer said that the gang was members of an international gang producing fake currency notes and they used to contact people through email and messages using short message service of cell phones.
In their messages, they say that they have a huge amount of unused US dollar and want to invest them in Bangladesh and thus they allure the Bangladeshis to whom they sell the fake dollars and chemicals to produce the fake dollars.
Besides, he said the gang was also involved in drug trade.
In early December in 2015, RAB arrested six people, including a Pakistani citizen, from the capital on charge of making fake foreign currency and having involvement with human smuggling.
In mid-November, 2014, detective branch of Dhaka Metropolitan police arrested 31 foreigners of 10 African countries for staying in the country illegally. Police found that many of them were involved in forged currency business.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net