Hridoy Matobbar, 22, an employee at a computer shop in the capital’s Shaympur, learned counterfeiting from YouTube and mastered his computer skills to produce fake money at home. He formed a network and started selling counterfeit currency on social media.

The Bangladesh Bank has found seven counterfeit notes of Tk 500 denomination in the vault of a branch of Jamuna Bank in Sherpur upazila of Bogura.

Rab yesterday arrested eight persons, including two females, from different areas in the capital and seized Rs 52 lakh in counterfeit Indian notes from a fake rupee factory.

Rapid Action Battalion detains six members of a gang for producing fake currency and seizes counterfeit notes of around Tk 1.04 crore in Banasri residential area of Dhaka.

Detectives continue to bust fake money-making units ahead of Eid and in the latest drive detain six along with Tk 40 lakh forged notes in Dhaka.

Police detain a man, his wife and sister-in-law with fake notes worth Tk 80,000 in Chittagong city early today.