Hyderabad: Bangladesh and Nepal borders are the routes chosen by FICN racketeers to pump in fake currency.
A police official from the central crime station said that proper checks were not implemented at the borders there as hundreds of labourers cross the country seeking work, and are generally not checked.
The sleuths of the FICN (Fake Indian Currency Notes) Team of the Detective department of Hyderabad, who are looking into the cases of smuggling of counterfeit currency notes, said that the villages located near Malda in West Bengal, which is close to the Indo-Bangla border, have been the favourite route for racketeers to pump in the fake currency notes into the country.
From there, the notes are diverted to various metropolitan cities through trains.
There were several instances, where the investigation of the smugglers led to the Indo-Bangla and Indo-Nepal borders.
Even detectives of agencies like the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, National Investigation Agency, which have made the biggest hauls, also came to the same conclusion, police officials said.
