BB hands over fake note identifiers to CMP

Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, Nov 3: Bangladesh Bank (BB) Chittagong office has donated 10 forfeited note identifying machines to the city police today. General Manager of the central bank Naoshad Ali Chowdhury handed over the machines to the DC (Headquarters) of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) at a brief ceremony at the bank's conference room in the city. Mr Naoshad said, the law enforcing agencies recently discovered a number of fake note making hideouts, which has created panic among the people as millions of taka are being transacted in the cattle markets every day. It is reported from the cattle markets in the city and its adjoining areas that the miscreants involved in the illicit trading are out to take advantage of the busy time of the buyers and sellers. "To help people detect the forfeited notes the central bank has handed our the machines to the city police," he said. DC (HQ) of CMP Faruk Ahmed said that the CMP has also procured some machines and those donated by the BB. Now fake notes will easily deceive buyers and sellers. "There is every possibility of being deceived because the people in the cattle market keep themselves busy on choosing sacrificial cows and bargaining on prices," he observed. BB DGM Mostafizul Kabir also addressed the function. He said copies of a video depicting 16 identifying features of actual notes will also be distributed in the cattle markets in the city and major markets in the upazila headquarters of the district.