Hawala Scam in Bengaluru

City Crime Branch (CCB) Police have arrested three accused who were smuggling ₹ 4.12 crores of new currency notes with the denomination of ₹ 2000 and ₹ 500.

The accused had secretly kept the currency notes inside onion and potato bags that were being carried from Mumbai to Kerala in a truck. Mohammad Afzal (23), Abdul Nasir (44) and Shamshuddeen (39) are arrested.

Police have seized all the currency notes (75% of 2 thousand denomination, 5% of 500 denomination and 20% of 100 denomination) along with the truck and 35 onion bags and a car.

Afzal the accused No.1, has an agarbatti factory in Kerala. Police sources say that Afzal was involved in Havala scam and he was getting money from Mumbai. He had taken a rented house in Kodigehalli in order to keep the illegal money. He used to transport the money that he was getting from Mumbai and again he was transporting that money from Bengaluru to Kerala in the mid night. One of his neighbour in Kodigehalli has informed the police that some illegal activity is going on in the house where Afzal was staying.

In the interrogation Afzal has accepted the crime and has said that he was getting just ₹ 100 commission for ₹ 1 lakh. The police have filed the case and are probing on who are all involved in this havala scam.

• Hawala
• smuggling
• police
• kerala
• mumbai