On Saturday, Railway police caught a Nigerian national at the Kalupur railway station and recovered fake US currency notes from him.
Chimmeji Obeyu Kirian, a 33-year-old Nigerian was walking along platform no 1 of the railway station when government railway police (GRP) officials spotted and questioned him. However, Chimmeji failed to give the cops satisfactory answers.
GRP personnel immediately sensed something wrong and searched his trolley bag. Officials found a box containing some white powder, a cover bearing the stamp of the US Mint Authority and a bottle containing some suspicious looking liquid in his bag. GRP inspector PP Pirozia also arrived at the spot and questioned Chimmeji about his intentions of coming to the city. Officials also found 30 bundles of US dollar notes from his bag. However, each bundle of notes had blank papers stuffed between two outside facing original currency notes.
When they probed further, cops found that the documents inside the cover had misleading, fake letterheads of a fictitious US government firm - International Development Bureau of Agro Wing & Printing, Washington. From his e-ticket, GRP found that Chimmeji arrived in the city in Rajdhani Express from Delhi. He belongs to Alakazi region in Lagos, Nigeria and currently stays at Pandara road in New Delhi.
Railway police called an FSL team to inspect the suspicious looking liquid and powder he was carrying. Taking no chances, they also informed the bomb disposal squad, who took the box and an aluminum bottle to an open space near platform no 12. Later, it was revealed that the powder was only talcum powder and the liquid was a mixture of water and perfume. GRP handed over the fake documents and bundles of dollars to RBI officials and also informed the immigration department about Chimmeji.
From his passport, it was revealed that he came to India on February 14 on a business visa, which expired on February 28, after which he had been living in India illegally. When asked about the currency notes and documents, Chimmeji told the police that he didn't know what was inside the box, and he was only asked to deliver it to a person in Mumbai.
After primary investigation, police believe that Chimmeji is part of a large racket of fake currency distributors, and the documents and other material found from him might have been used to cheat people.
