Right Materials, Strong Network & Bad Luck, How This Real-Life ‘Farzi’ Formed Fake Currency Cartel
1 year, 5 months ago

Right Materials, Strong Network & Bad Luck, How This Real-Life ‘Farzi’ Formed Fake Currency Cartel

News 18  

Somewhat inspired by Shahid Kapoor’s web series ‘Farzi’, a small-time goldsmith in Uttar Pradesh’s Kairana turned his shop into the printing press of Fake Indian Currency Notes of Rs 2,000 denomination. They would use appropriate raw materials such as fine quality paper sheets, green shining foil paper and special ink to manufacture “high-quality” FICN. The police had received some inputs that a member of a member of this cartel would come to Alipur in Delhi to deliver a consignment of fake currency notes to a prospective receiver. A team of Delhi Police Special Cell has been deputed to gather information about such cartels in view of trafficking and circulation of high-quality fake currency notes in the Capital and adjoining states such as Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.

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Gujarat: Four held with fake Indian currency notes worth over Rs 2 crore in Surat
1 week, 2 days ago

Gujarat: Four held with fake Indian currency notes worth over Rs 2 crore in Surat

India TV News  

Gujarat: At least four persons were arrested in Surat with fake Indian currency notes with a face value of Rs 2.57 crore, a police official said today. The four accused, three of whom are from Ahilyanagar in neighbouring Maharashtra, were walking with three bags when they were apprehended at a check post in Saroli on Saturday evening, the official said. …

Indian-origin Australian businessman held for printing fake dollars in Gujarat
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Indian-origin Australian businessman held for printing fake dollars in Gujarat

India Today  

Gujarat Police has cracked down on a fake currency racket, arresting four individuals, including the mastermind, Maulik Patel, an Indian-origin Australian citizen. After incurring significant losses in his transport business, he came up with the idea of printing Australian dollars here in India, said a senior official of the Ahmedabad police’s Special Operation Group, reported news agency PTI. Police kept …

Haryana: Six held with ₹13.66 lakh in fake currency notes
4 months, 1 week ago

Haryana: Six held with ₹13.66 lakh in fake currency notes

Hindustan Times  

Six members of a gang involved in printing and circulating fake currency notes were arrested after raids at Yamunanagar and Panchkula districts, said CIA-1 unit of the Yamunanagar police on Saturday. The police seized fake currency notes worth ₹13.66 lakh, a printer, a laptop and plain papers during the raids. An amount of ₹91,200 in fake currency notes was recovered …

Delhi Police bust fake currency racket, 2 held
5 months ago

Delhi Police bust fake currency racket, 2 held

Hindustan Times  

The Delhi Police special cell has arrested two members of an international Indian fake currency notes racket, that procured fake Indian banknotes from Pakistan and smuggled them into the country via Nepal or Bangladesh, officers aware of the matter said on Sunday. The arrested accused were nabbed with fake currency notes with a face value of ₹ 2.91 lakh, police …

Maoists trained for 6 months in Bastar: Probe into fake notes case
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Maoists trained for 6 months in Bastar: Probe into fake notes case

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: For nearly six months last year in the jungles of west Bastar in Chhattisgarh, Maoist insurgents were trained in the technique of printing fake currency notes, officials aware of the matter said a day after state police and the Central Reserve Police Force seized a cache of fake notes and printing machines from Sukma. According to police, Maoists …

FICN suppliers’ kingpin held,fake notes of face value ofRs 1,51,500 recovered
10 months, 2 weeks ago

FICN suppliers’ kingpin held,fake notes of face value ofRs 1,51,500 recovered

Hindustan Times  

Lucknow: In a major breakthrough, the UP Anti-Terror Squad arrested the kingpin of fake Indian currency notes suppliers from Varanasi late on Wednesday night, said senior ATS officials here on Thursday. “The accused used to lure young men to work as carriers for international FICN smugglers, who smuggled the fake notes to Malda, West Bengal from Bangladesh where they were …

Probe agency NIA raids multiple locations in 4 states, busts fake currency racket
1 year ago

Probe agency NIA raids multiple locations in 4 states, busts fake currency racket

India Today  

The National Investigation Agency conducted raids on Saturday across four states, uncovering a network involved in the production and circulation of Fake Indian Currency Notes. The raids targeted individuals suspected of being part of a larger conspiracy to traffic fake currency notes across borders and promote its circulation in various states of India. The suspects included Rahul Tanaji Patil in …

Rajasthan: Fake currency notes worth Rs 1.97 crore seized in Jodhpur ahead of Assembly polls
1 year, 1 month ago

Rajasthan: Fake currency notes worth Rs 1.97 crore seized in Jodhpur ahead of Assembly polls

India TV News  

Rajasthan: Fake currency worth Rs 1.97 crore has been seized from poll-bound Rajasthan. The cops first took action assuming that the money was real but later realised they were fake as currency notes had similar serial numbers. A team comprising of ACP and 10 police officers has been formed to find out the sources of the fake currency notes and …

Gang pays ₹25,000 for fake currency with face value of ₹1 lakh, caught by Bengaluru police
1 year, 4 months ago

Gang pays ₹25,000 for fake currency with face value of ₹1 lakh, caught by Bengaluru police

The Hindu  

Cottonpet police busted an inter-State fake currency racket and arrested three persons red-handed with 1,307 fake currency notes of ₹500 denomination adding up to ₹6.5 lakh. They were caught red-handed with the notes near the skywalk at city railway station on July 28 by a police team led by Balaraj G. Investigations revealed that Saravanan used to source the fake …

Panchkula police arrest welder for printing fake notes
1 year, 6 months ago

Panchkula police arrest welder for printing fake notes

Hindustan Times  

A welder, who learnt the trick of printing currency notes, was arrested by Panchkula police for printing and circulating fake currency on Saturday. When cash is deposited through CDM, the machine segregates fake currency from genuine ones, the police said. The police post in-charge, Sector 16, Gurpal Singh, said, “Accused Prabhjot along with his friend Sachin had taken a hotel …

Fake Currency Raids by NIA in Mumbai Linked to D Company; Several Incriminating Materials Found
1 year, 7 months ago

Fake Currency Raids by NIA in Mumbai Linked to D Company; Several Incriminating Materials Found

News 18  

The National Investigation Agency has recovered several incriminating materials during searches at half a dozen locations in Mumbai in the 2021 Naupada case relating to seizure of high quality fake Indian currency notes. This is strong corroboration of NIA’s earlier investigational findings establishing a direct connection with the D Company in the fake currency racket. Two persons were arrested in …

Mumbai Police arrests 33-year-old painter for printing fake banknotes, probe underway
1 year, 11 months ago

Mumbai Police arrests 33-year-old painter for printing fake banknotes, probe underway

Firstpost  

New Delhi: The saga of fake note-related scandals continues to grow across India. On Monday, the Mumbai Police arrested a 33-year-old artist who was allegedly involved in printing fake Rs 200 denomination banknotes. As reported by the news agency ANI, the Malvani division of the Mumbai Police seized several fake Rs 200 notes which have a face value of around …

Mathura Police busts interstate fake currency racket linked to China
2 years ago

Mathura Police busts interstate fake currency racket linked to China

Op India  

Officials of the Government Railway Police, Mathura, have busted an interstate gang involved in printing fake currency notes using equipment imported from China. Officials recovered fake currencies worth Rs 21,000, half-printed fake notes, equipment for printing fake notes valued an estimated value of Rs 7 lakh and other materials. Raunak’s name came to the fore on December 9, when Mathura …

Fake currency notes worth ₹2.98 lakh seized in Malda, two arrested
2 years, 3 months ago

Fake currency notes worth ₹2.98 lakh seized in Malda, two arrested

Live Mint  

Fake Indian currency notes worth ₹2 lakh were seized by Special Task Force of West Bengal Police from two persons in Malda district, the police reported on Sunday. Force personnel apprehended two persons Tayab Ansari and Mansur Ali from Tulsidanga area under Gazole police station on Friday. The fake currency notes seized from the duo by the police were in …

Nearly 60% of fake money seized in 2021 were of ₹2,000 denomination: NCRB
2 years, 3 months ago

Nearly 60% of fake money seized in 2021 were of ₹2,000 denomination: NCRB

The Hindu  

Nearly 60% of all fake money seized in the year 2021 were of ₹2,000 denomination, the Crime in India 2021 report compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau shows. Of the total ₹20.39 crore fake Indian currency notes seized in 2021, ₹12.18 crore was in the denomination of ₹2,000. While in 2016, fake currency worth ₹15.92 crore was seized, the …

Decrease in circulation of fake ₹2000 notes from 2018-19: Centre to Lok Sabha
2 years, 4 months ago

Decrease in circulation of fake ₹2000 notes from 2018-19: Centre to Lok Sabha

Hindustan Times  

The circulation of fake ₹2000 denomination currency notes has decreased in the banking system from 2018-19, the Union ministry of finance on Monday told Lok Sabha. “In 2021-22, the number of fake currency notes of ₹2000 denomination detected in the banking system was 13,604 pieces which is 0.000635% of the total number of banknotes of ₹2000 denomination in circulation,” the …

Interstate gang cheating people on pretext of facilitating loans busted by Delhi police, 4 held
2 years, 5 months ago

Interstate gang cheating people on pretext of facilitating loans busted by Delhi police, 4 held

India Today  

The Cyber police station of Delhi police busted a gang of criminals for allegedly cheating people on the pretext of facilitating online loans. Police also recovered ATM cards, debit cards, seven mobile phones, a laptop, a dongle, a tablet, checkbooks, one BMW car, passbooks and Rs 20,000 cash from the possession of the accused. The accused used to get cheated …

Delhi crime branch busts syndicate supplying fake currency notes
2 years, 7 months ago

Delhi crime branch busts syndicate supplying fake currency notes

India Today  

The Delhi Police’s crime branch busted a syndicate supplying counterfeit currency notes on Sunday. It also recovered counterfeit currency notes worth more than Rs 34.75 lakh and arrested three people. After interrogating Ashish Jain, his associate Rajpal Raju was apprehended and police recovered fake notes worth Rs 3.13 lakh. They also recovered 50 uncut printed currency notes worth Rs 62,000 …

Guwahati: Police seize fake Indian currency worth 15 lakhs; former GNLA member among 3 arrested
2 years, 10 months ago

Guwahati: Police seize fake Indian currency worth 15 lakhs; former GNLA member among 3 arrested

India Today  

The Crime Branch and a team of East Guwahati Police District on Tuesday arrested three people, including a former member of the Garo National Liberation Army for racketeering of fake Indian currency notes. Fake Indian currency worth Rs 15 lakh seized Acting on a tip-off, a Bolero vehicle was intercepted at the Sonapur toll gate and a search was conducted. …

Mumbai :47-yr-old man arrested for printing fake currency notes in Pydhonie area
3 years, 1 month ago

Mumbai :47-yr-old man arrested for printing fake currency notes in Pydhonie area

India Today  

A 47-year-old man was arrested by Mumbai Police's Crime Intelligence Unit on Wednesday for printing fake currency notes in the Pydhonie area. Police seized 53 counterfeit notes of Rs 2,000 denomination worth Rs 1,06,000 from the accused, Shabbir Hasan Qureshi. According to CIU, these notes were printed by Qureshi at his house and police have also recovered materials like a …

Delhi Police Arrests 2 Men, Claims to Have Busted Fake Currency Racket Being Operated from Dubai
3 years, 4 months ago

Delhi Police Arrests 2 Men, Claims to Have Busted Fake Currency Racket Being Operated from Dubai

News 18  

The Delhi Police’s Special Cell arrested two men on charges of circulating fake Indian currency notes and claimed to have busted a racket being operated from Dubai. Jakir and Kamre Alam — circulated fake Indian currency notes in Delhi-NCR on the directions of a Dubai-based man. Deputy Commissioner of Police Sanjeev Kumar Yadav said that in the past few months, …

Delhi police bust fake currency racket operated by Dubai-based kingpin with links to Pakistan
3 years, 4 months ago

Delhi police bust fake currency racket operated by Dubai-based kingpin with links to Pakistan

India Today  

The Delhi Police Special Cell has arrested two men on charges of circulating fake Indian currency notes while busting a racket being operated from Dubai. After shifting to Dubai,Sariq started operating a FICN syndicate and circulated fake currency notes in Delhi-NCR and other states with the help of the duo. On August 20, Delhi Police got a tipoff that a …

Fake Currency Racket Busted in Madhya Pradesh, Police Suspect Maoist Link
3 years, 5 months ago

Fake Currency Racket Busted in Madhya Pradesh, Police Suspect Maoist Link

News 18  

Police have nabbed eight people from Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh with fake currency notes of Rs 5 crore face value. According to Superintendent of Police Abhishek Tiwari, the fake notes recovered are of different denominations from Rs 10 to Rs 2000. According to police sources, some of the fake notes circulated by the gang might have fallen into the …

Most fakes are ₹2,000 notes: NCRB
4 years, 2 months ago

Most fakes are ₹2,000 notes: NCRB

The Hindu  

Four years after demonetisation, the highest number of all counterfeit notes seized last year was in the denomination of ₹2,000, according to the National Crime Records Bureau’s annual Crime in India report. The data on seizures of counterfeit notes from all the States and Union Territories also shows there is a surge in seizure of fake Indian currency notes in …

Syndicate busted in Pilibhit circulated fake currency notes worth Rs 25 lakh: Police
4 years, 3 months ago

Syndicate busted in Pilibhit circulated fake currency notes worth Rs 25 lakh: Police

India Today  

A team of the Delhi Police Special Cell's south-western range busted a fake Indian currency notes syndicate operating out of Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh. Four members of the syndicate have been arrested and 12 stacks of fake currency notes amounting to Rs 1,34,00 have been recovered along with equipment used to print them. Patel, his wife and two others were …

Fake Notes Case: NIA Files Supplementary Charge Sheet against Man from Bengal
4 years, 4 months ago

Fake Notes Case: NIA Files Supplementary Charge Sheet against Man from Bengal

News 18  

The NIA on Tuesday filed a supplementary charge sheet against a person in connection with the recovery of high-quality fake currency notes, having face value of over Rs 1.90 lakh, in 2019 from Purnea in Bihar, officials said. The National Investigation Agency took over the probe in January this year and arrested Martuja, officials said, adding that it filed charge …

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