Indian rupees worth Tk 10cr seized: 3 held
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested three members of a currency smuggling gang and seized Indian rupees worth around Tk 10 crore from their possession in the capital's Paltan area early yesterday.
The arrestees are, Md Murad Hossain, 24, a clothes trader at Islampur, Abdullah Al Mamun, 40, of Chittagong and Imran Hossain, 41, living at Banashree of the city's Rampura.
Rab received information that a gang of currency smugglers would bring foreign currency to the capital hidden inside a consignment of imported clothes from Chittagong, which would be delivered to the capital's Polwel Market in Paltan.
Lt Col Rashidul Alam, commanding officer of Rab-1, said they were lying in wait in front of the market around 12:30am.
A covered van with four boxes appeared at the spot about an hour later and left after unloading the shipment. Rab personnel arrested Murad and Mamun who came to collect the goods, he said.
Searching the boxes Rab found the smuggled rupees and following information provided by the arrestees they captured the owner of the clothes Imran Hossain at his house in Rampura, said Rashidul Alam.
During interrogation, Murad and Imran confessed that they used to carry foreign currencies from Chittagong for money. In the last four months they carried two consignments of rupees worth around Tk 16.5 crore, the Rab official said.
Rab is trying to nab the main gang, he added.
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