In a bid to check currency forgery, the law enforcers have planned to launch a crackdown on the identified rackets across the country.
The initiative is taken by the Home Ministry after it received an intelligence report on 255 criminals involved in the illegal business.
The report submitted last week also suggests that the BGB strengthen its efforts to check cross-border smuggling of fake currency.
Bangladesh has also shared the information with India as the two countries are set to hold the fourth meeting of the joint task force on currency forgers in Delhi from February 22-25. A delegation of Bangladesh Police will join the meeting to be held in India.
The last meeting was held in November in Dhaka.
Md Moniruzzaman, assistant inspector general (confidential) of the Police Headquarters, told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday that they would sit again this month to share updates on action taken against the currency forgers by the two countries.
Also a member of the task force, Monir said that they were working on case-to-case basis.
“We take action whenever there is an incident of seizure, no matter whether it is in Bangladesh or India.
“In the last couple of months, we conducted several drives while a number of cases were filed in Dhaka and Chittagong,” he said, adding that it would be a continue process.
The intelligence report mentioned that the organised forgers were collecting huge sum of money from the market by deceiving people, mainly the bank clients and businessmen. They get bail from the courts and again engage in the same offence.
Apart from launching awareness campaigns, the report suggests that the authorities set up fake note detection machines at the business centres and speed up trial of the ongoing cases.
Of the groups engaged in currency forgery, the intelligence officials have found the trace of at least 12 gangs in the capital that include Jakir group, Humayun group, Alauddin-Polash group, Emon-Babu group, Kamal group, Duruzzaman group and Sagir Master group.
Monirul Islam, the joint commissioner of DB police, said that the law enforcers were working against the currency forgers throughout the year.
“We arrested a number of gang leaders during our operations, but many of them come out of jail on bail and engage in the same crime again,” he said, adding that they were trying to locate the criminals now on bail.