R&AW Sabotaging ISI backed operations of Pumping Fake Currency Notes into India using various routes In September, the UAE authorities had arrested four Pakistani nationals– Shiraz Nazir, Abdus Rabbani, Farooq Zaman and Amir Reza Darsi– at Abu Dhabi Airport for trying to smuggle out Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) with a face value of `47.27 lakh. This year alone, at least 14 such incidents have been reported until now. The Central Intelligence agencies, including R&AW and Intelligence Bureau, have identified Abu Dhabi, Bangkok, Dhaka and Colombo as the major transit points for smuggling in FICN into India. On July 22, R&AW had shared inputs with Thai authorities and three key players behind the FICN racket, Sajjad Noor (Pakistani Passport Number– AJ 9995572), Noor Shahid (Pakistani Passport Number–AF 9992281) and Ali Mohammad Hafiz (Of Pakistan origin holding a Canadian Passport–BA 562969) were arrested in front of the Pakistan Embassy in Bangkok. In Colombo, an R&AW operation had helped to nab Muhammad Ali, who travelled on board Sri Lankan flight UL-184 from Karachi to Colombo. The consignment was sent by Pakistani FICN operator Aslam Shera on the request of his Pak associate Rizean, who is serving time in a Sri Lankan jail in connection with a heroin smuggling case. On April 27, Bangladeshi Customs authorities had seized a consignment of FICN having a face value `6.40 crore from cargo section of Dhaka Airport. The consignment was brought from Pakistan on a Qatar Airways Cargo flight. Just a week before, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence had shared another input that FICN smugglers Amanulla Paracha and Bangladeshi associate Khaliq arranged for two Bangladeshi nationals to smuggle FICN from Pakistan to Bangladesh via Dubai on board flight number FZ 334 from Lahore to Dubai and further onward from Dubai to Dhaka by flight number FZ 583. According to intelligence report, Lalitpur and Birgunj in Nepal are also on the radar of the agencies for being used as safehouses by the Pakistani smugglers. Intelligence officials said arrests and subsequent interrogation of players confirm that the underworld with the help of Pakistan is pumping in FICN to destabilise the financial system.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:03:57 +0000
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