RAB arrests one operative of fake currency making gang in Dhaka

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested an operative of a gang involved in making fake currency from the Kadamtali area of Dhaka on Thursday night.

The arrestee is Jisan Hossain Rifat, 19, who learned how to make fake currency by watching video content on YouTube.

Superintendent of Police (SP) Mohiuddin Mahmud Sohel, company commandant of the elite force, revealed this information at a press conference in the RAB-10 office of Dhaka’s Jatrabari area on Friday noon.

Rifat used to print and supply fake currency notes in different areas of the country, including Jatrabari, Shyampur, Demra and Narayanganj, he said.

SP Sohel said the arrestee learned to make fake currencies from YouTube, driven by greed and ambitious dreams of earning more money quickly.

He also received training in making fake currency notes from gangs through various means, and later, he made fake notes and supplied them himself in various ways, the RAB officer said.

After making the notes, he created a Facebook page to sell and supply them to different people. However, all the information was exchanged in the messenger, he said.

Rifat and his gang members used to sell the fake notes at fish markets, launch ghats, bus terminals, and other markets and supplied fake notes worth Tk 20 million across the country, the RAB official said.

During the arrest, fake notes totaling Tk 2,30,900 in different denominations, along with various equipment, including computers, were seized in a raid on a house in the Kadamtali area, he added.