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Continuing its drive against modules involved in the import of security paper and printing Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN), the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) conducted simultaneous searches at 11 different places across Maharashtra, Haryana, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, and Bihar and busted seven additional modules involved in the printing of FICN on Thursday.
As per official sources, DRI sleuths identified and located the importer in Vikhroli West, Mumbai. After a thorough search, a sophisticated facility for printing and finishing the fake Indian currency notes was unearthed, and fake currency in the denomination of Rs. 50 and Rs. 100, several machinery/tools were seized.
The seized items include laptops, printers, pen drives, security paper, A-4 sized papers, and butter paper with a watermark of Mahatma Gandhi.
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In Sangamner district and in Kolhapur district, the DRI uneartheda similar setup with computers and printers, which were being used to print fake Indian currency notes. At both places, on the basis of the complaint filed by DRI officers, the two accused were arrested.
The questioning of the accused in the Kolhapur module led to the busting of another module with printing set up in Belgaum, by Kolhapur police, who arrested three more persons in the case.
In three other locations, (West Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh; Khagaria District in Bihar, and Rohtak in Haryana) the importers of the security paper were traced. Incriminating evidence such as restricted security paper and a printer at West Godavari were seized.
How The Modules Were Busted?
On February 8, 2025, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) arrested two persons found to be the actual importers of high-quality paper with embedded security thread having inscriptions of ‘RBI’ and ‘Bharat’ (‘security paper’) in Ghazipur District, Uttar Pradesh and Bengaluru, Karnataka.
On February 9, DRI busted two facilities (Thane, Maharashtra & Bhiwani District Haryana) printing FICN using imported security papers, where three persons were arrested by jurisdictional police authorities based on a complaint made by DRI.
