Note fakers’ plea rejected

An expatriate couple and two Asian men convicted in a fake currency case have had their appeals rejected. The defendants were earlier sentenced to three years behind bars each for forging US dollars.

The four defendants include a German national, and his ex-wife, a Belarusian woman, as well as a Bangladeshi man and a Pakistani man. They were put on trial after the Belarusian woman got arrested for trying to buy some items from a major hypermarket at a local mall using a $100 fake currency note.

The rest of the defendants except the Pakistani man were arrested following investigations into the case. According to court files, the German man bought $2,000 fake dollars from the Pakistani man for BD270 and it was the Bangladeshi man who introduced the Pakistani suspect to the German accused.

“I did have a business relationship with the Pakistani man and he told me that he had fake dollars. I told him that I know a German, who would be interested in buying them. And he did buy $2,000 for BD270,” the Bangladeshi man told prosecutors.