India says Pakistan major source of fake currency

Maximum consignments of high quality fake Indian currency notes are being supplied in India from Pakistan, the Indian parliament was informed on Thursday. “As per available inputs from central intelligence and investigation agencies, consignments of high quality fake Indian currency notes (FICN) have been directly or indirectly sourced from Pakistan,” Indian Minister of State for Finance Namo Narain Meena said in a written reply to Rajya Sabha. To a question about whether India had sought the help of the United States of America to tackle the menace of fake currency notes, he replied in the affirmative. “Under the Indo-US homeland security dialogue, counterfeit currency is one of the aspects for cooperation, covering exchange of knowledge, skill and intelligence,” he said.