Fake currency racket: NIA arrests mastermind Abdul Salam deported from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Fake currency racket: NIA arrests mastermind Abdul Salam 

NIA has filed chargesheet within the case within which defendant had been found to be collaborating with Dawood partner in crime to move faux currency from Islamic Republic of Pakistan into Asian nation via Gulf.

A faux currency racketeer, United Nations agency collaborated with members of Dawood Ibrahim’s gang, was on Thursday deported from Asian nation and in remission by NIA on arrival at the IGI airdrome.

Abdul Salam alias Podi Salam, a resident of Malappuram district in Kerala, was wished by the NIA in an exceedingly 2014 case of pretend currency seizure value over Rs nine 100000 at Nedumbassery airdrome in Kerala.

The NIA has filed a chargesheet within the case within which the defendant had been found to be collaborating with Dawood partner in crime, Aftab Batki, to move faux currency from West Pakistan into Asian country via Gulf.

The case was 1st registered by Kerala Police in January 2013 when customs officers comprehended one Abid Chullikulavan Hassan at Nedumbasserry International airdrome with faux currency on January twenty six. The NIA took over the investigation in Gregorian calendar month 2014.

“Abdul Salam was a part of the criminal conspiracy to import top quality counterfeit Asian countryn currency notes to India from UAE and had expedited importing of the contraband through Abid Chullikulavan Hassan. The case is unfinished trial before the NIA special court at Ernakulum, Kerala,” Associate in Nursing NIA statement aforementioned.

One of the defendant within the case had are available in contact with Aftab Batki through Associate in Nursing inmate whereas he was lodged in Mumbai’s Arthur Road jail on charges of narcotics importing. Batki written him for importing of pretend currency when he came out of jail.

Interestingly, it had been constant defendant United Nations agency had tipped off Customs concerning the consignment of pretend currency however was in remission by NIA as he had a vigorous involvement within the racket.