Kasargod: Fake currency investigation team seeks repatriation of accused
Stephan Kayyar
Daijiworld Media Network – Kasargod (SP)
Kasargod, May 23: The officials investigating the fake currency notes racket that is active in the district, have recommended to the head of the crime branch, seeking repatriation of three persons including the leader of the fake currency distribution racket in the district from the Gulf region.
Brain behind the fake notes circulation racket, Moidin alias Mohiuddin Haji from Muloor Udupi, Kasargod Muhammed Kunhi, and Majeer, among several others, presently reside in Dubai as per information collected by the police department. It is said that they also operate a Hawala racket.
It is gathered that the crime branch is making efforts to get these persons deported to India for questioning them. A decision to impound their passports has also been taken.
It may be recalled that the racket was unearthed with the arrest of Abdul Jabbar from Cheruvathur Kaidakkad, who had tried to buy gold ornaments from a jewellery shop in Kanhangad by tendering fake currency notes on August 17, 2012. Jabbar had given fake currency notes amounting to Rs 1.8 lac towards purchase of jewellery items. A team led by the then sub-inspector of Hosdurg station, K V Venugopal, had arrested Jabbar then.
During investigation, the police learnt that fake currency notes worth Rs 31 lac, which were printed in Pakistan, had been routed to the district via Dubai. The police then arrested Usman from Bantwal, who had delivered the fake notes and Hawala amount to the house of Abdul Jabbar, U Chetan Kumar from Udupi, who brought fake notes from Dubai to Mangalore, and his friend, Krishnaraj Pandit from Manipal. Abdul Nasser from Kasargod, who had burnt down fake notes out of fear of police raid, was also arrested. After the investigation was entrusted to the crime branch, Abdul Jabbar's wife was arrested. The crime branch hopes to make a breakthrough once the main operators of this scandal living in Dubai are brought back.