Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) is now printing Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) at their security printing press in Malir Halt, Karachi, reports weeklyblitz.net on October 9. One of the prominent distributors of ISI is Dawood Ibrahim Kasker’s D-company, which also operates from Karachi. For the first time, the FICN seized by Delhi Special Cell proves that ‘Optical Variable Ink’ used by India in printing INR 2000 notes has also been used by the Pakistan operatives. Another prominent security feature copied is the raised bleed lines printed on the extreme left and right side of the note. On August 24, 2019, a Special Cell team of Delhi Police arrested a D-company agent Aslam Ansari from Nehru place in Delhi and recovered FICN worth over INR 550,000. In the first glimpse, Police could not verify the authenticity of the INR 2000 notes as they carried almost all the security marks. Later the currency experts confirmed that notes seized by the Special Cell were high-quality FICN.
Pakistan has been using this high-quality FICN to finance illicit activities and militant groups, including the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) reports devdiscourse.com on October 9. Pakistan has been misusing diplomatic channels in Nepal, Bangladesh and other countries to bring and distribute consignments of Fake Indian Currency Notes. In May 2019, a recently released D-company associate, Younus Ansari, was arrested with three Pakistani nationals at Kathmandu Airport in Nepal with a huge consignment of Indian currency totaling INR 76.7 million. On September 25, 2019, Dhaka Police seized FICN worth INR 4.95 million. A Dubai-based individual 'Salman Shera' had sent the parcel to Sylhet in Bangladesh, which was sent to Dhaka via a courier service 'SA Poribahan.' The original consignor Salman Shera is the son of Aslam Shera, ISI dealer in FICN, active since the late 1990s, said senior officials.