Printing and selling counterfeit US dollars: FIA apprehends four more accused

KARACHI: The Corporate Crime Circle (CCC) of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has apprehended four more accused of printing and selling counterfeit American dollars.

On Wednesday, all the four accused -- Muhammad Bilal, Sabir Ahmed, Anwar Khan and another accused -- were presented before the court of Judicial Magistrate (JM) South Dureshahwar Junejo. The court accepted the plea of FIA and granted four days physical remand of all the four accused persons to the agency for further investigation. According to FIA’s submission before the court, all the four accused persons were arrested from Karachi’s Cantonment Railway Station on the tip of a source along with 5,000 plus counterfeit US dollars. Earlier on March 7, 2020, a team of the same circle of Federal Investigation Agency, arrested Sardar Sheharyar Khan, Imran alias Victor, Muhammad Ilyas and another person on the same charges of selling of foreign currency especially US dollars. The FIR was registered at the Corporate Crime Circle, Karachi.

The FIA sources said that the federal government, through Director General FIA, has directed Additional Director General (ADG) , South Zone, Sultan Khawaja, to take strict action on circulation of counterfeit US dollars to weaken the economy of the country. Sources further added that the FIA Sindh recovered 13,100 counterfeit US dollars, and on accused's disclosure, Mohammad Ilyas and Mohammad Yousuf were arrested from whom the agency recovered 30,000 counterfeit US dollars. The team made further efforts and arrested four more people in the same case and recovered 5,000 more counterfeit dollars. According to the submission of IO Chandio before the court, a sample of currency notes has been sent to US for forensic analysis through the US Consulate and report is awaited.