Buffaloes smuggle fake notes from BD to India!
Sunday, 8 June 2014
A man who used buffaloes to smuggle fake currency notes from Bangladesh to India has been arrested in West Bengal. Mohammad Makdum Jalal Shaikh, 35, a resident of Malda in India’s West Bengal state, ran a racket that deployed buffaloes to carry fake money from Bangladesh in bags fastened to their bodies. The animals were made to cross water bodies near the border to enter India. Indian media reports, quoting Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), said on secret information an ATS team tracked down Makdum Jalal Shaikh, a countrywide supplier of fake currency, who was arrested with fake notes with a face value of Rs 500,000. He was caught while handing over fake notes to a distributor from Mumbai. The town of Malda, in eastern Indian state of West Bengal, situated on the Bangladesh-India border, is a hub of fake notes racket, according to the country’s police. ‘Every state is aware of Shaikh, we have been after him for long,’ an officer who took part in the operation said. ‘He has been at the top of the list of people wanted for fake currency rackets. He has a number of cases pending against him,’ the official added, according to Mid-Day, an Indian newspaper.