NIA arrests fake currency racket mastermind deported from Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia has deported a ring leader of a fake Indian currency note racket, Abdul Salam, who was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) upon his landing at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi yesterday. Abdul Salam alias Podi Salam, a resident of Malappuram in Kerala, was wanted in a case of smuggling of fake Indian currency notes with a face value of 9 lakh 75 thousand



rupees.

The NIA had taken over investigation into the case in July 2014 from the Kerala Police and filed a charge sheet against five accused including Abdul Salam in July last year. The agency alleged that Salam was part of the criminal conspiracy to smuggle high quality counterfeit notes to India from the UAE and had facilitated its smuggling through Abid Chullikulavan Hassan.