Metropolitan Police Crime Division (MPCD), Hanumandhoka, has busted an organised network active in smuggling fake Indian currency in Nepal and various Indian towns bordering Nepal.
Speaking at a press conference, Upendra Kant Aryal, chief of MPCD, Hanumandhoka, said police had arrested Bijaya Shrivastav, Ranadhir Kumar Gupta aka Pappu, Aftab Alam, and Lal Mahamad from the network.
According to the MPCD, police have also filed a case against Gyan Prasad Acharya, the owner of Handshake Travel in Thamel, for his role as an accomplice in the network.
Co-owner of Handshake Travel Upendra Chaudhari and Nawa Raj Pandey involved in the network are still at large.
Police said that the arrested Lal Mahamad was also the mastermind behind the murder of one Balaram Patuwa, who was shot dead in Anamnagar on July 4.
Patuwa, a permanent resident of Bara district, was shot dead by his own accomplices for his alleged involvement in providing information to police and causing seizure of 1.5 million contraband Indian currency in Dhaka, Bangladesh, last November.
SSP Aryal also informed that the arrested were involved in supplying fake currency in Kathmandu valley and 20 other districts, where Indian currency is easily accepted.
" The arrested have confessed that they pay NRs 320,000 to buy Rs 500,000 fake Indian currency in Thailand and Malaysia," he added.
Superintendent of Police Devendra Subedi said that the fake currency is supplied in the market through casinos, money change centers and businesses run by members associated with this organized network.
The groups were found to be using Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Bangaladesh as transit points to supply the currency in the Nepali market, besides various Indian towns bordering Nepal.
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