NEW DELHI: A man was arrested on Saturday by the special cell for smuggling fake currency notes into the country. The accused, identified as Shahjahan Sheikh, was running a wide network of fake Indian currency notes from Delhi, Gujarat and Maharashtra.

A key player, Sheikh, was wanted for smuggling of FICNs from Bangladesh.

“He was arrested after a long operation carried out by our team in Kaliachak village in Malda, West Bengal. He was the most wanted Indian kingpin in this organized crime and was working with hostile agencies to destabilize the economy. A better understanding of FICN operations and modules active at present is expected to come to light during Shahjahan’s interrogation,” DCP Sanjeev Yadav said.

Shahjahan used different aliases in dealing with different retail chains and never met any unknown client directly, police said.