The district Detective Branch (DB) of police has arrested a young man, Md Srabon Hossain, 20, with equipment for printing counterfeit money and fake notes in Sreenagar, Munshiganj.
Ishtiaq Ashfaq Russell, officer-in-charge of the district Detective Branch, confirmed the arrest to the newspaper Naya Diganta at midday on Monday, 19 October.
He was arrested in a raid on a room in a single-storey building in the Bhagyakul Mandra area of Sreenagar upazila at about 9.45pm on Sunday.
The raid recovered 1,000 fake Tk 200 notes, worth Tk 200,000 in total. A Dell laptop and an Epson colour printer were also seized.
Ishtiaq Ashfaq Russell said that acting on a tip-off, a DB team led by sub-inspector (unarmed) Mohammad Kamrul Hasan PPM carried out a special operation in the Bhagyakul Mandra area under Sreenagar police station at about 9.45pm on Sunday. During the operation, Srabon, from the same area, was arrested while printing counterfeit money in a room of a single-storey building in ward 8 of Mandra.
A case is being filed at the police station concerned, he said.
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