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- Garbage collector Suleman found 23 bundles of US currency
- All the notes were soaked with chemicals, a scam was suspected
- The investigation of the case has been handed over to the Hebbal police
Bengaluru:
A 39-year-old man collecting garbage in Bengaluru, the capital of Karnataka, found 3 million US dollars in a bag lying on the railway tracks. Its price in Indian currency is around 25 crore rupees. According to the police report, a letterhead with United Nations stamp was also found in the bag along with US dollars. According to the report, rag picker Sulaiman Shaikh found 23 bundles of US currency in one bag on November 3. He handed over 23 bundles of US currency and UN letterheads to the city police on Sunday.
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According to the report, Sulaiman Sheikh is a resident of Nadia district of West Bengal. He works as a garbage collector in Bengaluru. The incident is on November 1. As usual Suleiman was collecting plastic and bottles at Nagawara railway station. While collecting the garbage, he noticed a black bag. He was surprised when he picked up the bag and opened it. He went home with the bag.
Contacted National Executive Member of Swaraj India
Seeing so many notes, Sulaiman Sheikh got scared and did not say anything to anyone. When he met his boss Bappa on 5th November, Suleman told him everything and also placed bundles of notes in front of him. Suleman’s owner Bappa was also surprised to see this amount. He immediately contacted social activist and national executive member of Swaraj India R Kaleem Ullah, who took Suleman to the office of Commissioner B Dayanand in Bengaluru.
The investigation of the case has been handed over to the Hebbal police
Bengaluru Police Commissioner has handed over the investigation of the case to Hebbal Police. According to the police, the entire case seems to be related to the black dollar scam. ie currency doubling scam. The police have sent the recovered US dollars to the Reserve Bank for further investigation. So that one can know whether the dollar is genuine or fake. All the notes were soaked with chemicals. So its investigation is also necessary. As per preliminary investigation, these currency notes are said to be fake and are part of the ‘black dollar scam’.
A new twist in the case
Meanwhile, this case has taken a new turn. Suleman’s owner Bappa alleged that some people kidnapped him on November 7 after the matter came to light. Those people doubted that the US dollars were still with them. However, he was released after a few hours. In this case, the police are also scanning the nearby CCTV footage, so that if Bappa was abducted, the vehicle in which Bappa was taken back to Hebbal could be traced. If that vehicle is traced, the difference in dollars found in the bag will also be resolved.