After demonetisation, some individuals are trying to turn their black money into white money. After the ban on old notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000, old currency was also found in some areas and some of the individuals were caught having banned currency. Some cases were also recorded for having new currency in unaccounted way earlier. One more case was filed in which five persons were caught red handed with banned currency.
According to police, the Delhi Police Crime Branch and Income Tax Department has held five persons here with Rs 3.25 crore in old currency notes. The police said the joint raid was conducted at Hotel Taksh Inn of Karol Bagh on Tuesday late night, followed a tip off.
In the Interrogation it was revealed that the money recovered belonged to Mumbai hawala operators, who had hired 'special' packaging agents to pass through airport security with the cash.
The Joint Commissioner of Police (JCP) of Crime Branch Ravindra Yadav said, “the Income Tax Department officers seized Rs 3.25 crore. The amount recovered was kept in various suitcases and car board boxes which had all demonetised notes,"
He also informed media that, “they had hired packaging specialists who pack these notes in such a manner that it is undetectable by airport scanning machines. The experts in packaging use some tapes and wires which passes through X-ray,"
The IT department was analyzing the mobile details, which allegedly contain details of other hawala operators. These five persons were arrested and identified as Ansari Abuzar, Fazal Khan, and Ansari Affan from Mumbai; and Ladu Ram and Mahaveer Singh from Rajasthan.
When the announcement of demonetisation was made by the Prime Minister on November 8 it was expected that only a minimum amount of banned currency can be changed to new currency but as the cases were recorded after the announcement it shows that corrupt ones are looking for a chance to convert their huge amount of unaccounted cash in white money.
--with agency inputs
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