Indian agencies are trying to verify whether former Nepal crown prince Paras played a role in pumping fake currency into India.
Indian agencies are trying to verify whether former Nepal crown prince Paras played a role in pumping fake currency into India. The Madhya Pradesh police on Tuesday shared with the CBI the information they got after interrogating two fake currency smugglers. The smugglers had named Paras as one of those involved in the racket.
Paras, the son of the last king of Nepal, Gyanendra, has a knack for being in trouble — he’s been accused of killing a Nepali folk singer, creating nuisance in Kathmandu and being the recalcitrant kid of the family. After the royal massacre of 2001, he became the crown prince.
Ateeq Ahmed and Rajesh Gupta who would transport FICN (fake Indian currency notes), were intercepted in Bhopal by the Madhya Pradesh Special Task Force. They said Paras has close links with Dawood Ibrahim’s FICN business.
According to Ahmed and Gupta, Paras has been using his clout to help the transit of fake currency from Pakistan via Nepal into India. The kingpin of ISI’s fake currency operations is Yunus Ansari, the son of Salim Mian Ansari, a former minister in Gyanendra’s cabinet and a close friend of Paras.
Ahmed claims he’s been smuggling FICN for the past five years and has been receiving orders from Yunus Ansari. “They said that Yunus heads ISI’s FICN ring in Nepal and that Paras helps him get the consignments cleared from Pakistan to Nepal and from there to India,” said a senior MP police officer.
Yunus is said to have got into the FICN trade during his father’s tenure, when he went on an official trip to Cairo where he was contacted and recruited by ISI. According to intelligence reports, the smuggling of fake Indian currency is being monitored by ISI from the Pakistan embassy in Kathmandu.
Ahmed and Gupta, who were arrested on Saturday while trying to board a Gorakhpur-bound train, said they used to transport the fake currency to Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. They were in touch with 40 persons in MP who were part of the racket.
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