ISLAMABAD - Pakistani authorities tipped by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have busted a 15-member gang that printed “high-quality” counterfeit bank notes including foreign currency, officials said on Tuesday. “Ten members of the criminal gang have been arrested,” Amna Idrees and Fahim Noor, two investigators of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), told journalists in Islamabad.The detainees were put behind bars for interrogation after being produced before a court in the city of Rawalpindi last week.
Names of five absconding suspects have been placed on the Exit Control List to prevent them from escaping abroad.
| Because they wouldn't have printed any fake passports, you know. |
Some influential people, including bankers and government officials, were helping the gang, therefore, the authorities would not make public the names of the arrested people, the NAB officials said.
| Figures, you have to have inside help to move that kind of money. |