Cameroon national held with forged foreign currencies
The Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested a Cameroon national on Tuesday night with forged foreign currencies and equipment to produce them, in his possession.
The arrestee Kenang Blaise, 35, said he had come to Bangladesh to conduct business in the ready made garment sector. He had been living here illegally, the police said.
DB officials said Blaise along with three of his friends came to Bangladesh in 2008 and had been conducting the illegal business of producing and distributing counterfeit foreign currencies.
They used to cheat Bangladeshis by giving them three forged notes of hundred dollar in exchange for a single hundred dollar bill, DB officials said. Acting on a tip off, the DB police conducted a raid and arrested him from the capital's Boro Moghbazar.
Assistant Commissioner (AC) of DB police Mohammad Asaduzzaman told The Daily Star that Blaise had been arrested twice earlier, on the same charges. He had been arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department in 2009 and by Rapid Action Battalion on 2010 but he escaped both the times by securing court bail.
“All four of them were detained by the CID in 2009 but they were released on bail. Three left the country. Blaise alone stayed back,” he said.
DB has sent him to jail and sought ten days' remand.
African nationals had been arrested on similar charges over the years.
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