The Madras High Court on Tuesday transferred the investigation into a fake foreign currency case to the Interpol Wing of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after finding that the Coimbatore city police had not been able to even confirm the genuineness or otherwise of the currency notes since March 1, 2021.
Justice G. Jayachandran criticised the State police heavily for not having made any headway in the case for more than two years since Nigerian national O. Nathan Ikechukwu was arrested for attempting to exchange fake US dollars at a private foreign currency exchange agency in Kattur police station limits.
The Assistant Manager of the agency had lodged the complaint with the police on March 1, 2021 and also handed over the suspect after accusing him of attempting to escape when he was questioned about being in possession of fake dollars. The police registered a FIR and he was remanded to judicial custody.
