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Fake ID cards in just 30 mins!

ZYMA ISLAM and PROTIK CHAKRABARTY
Friday's seizure of thousands of fake national identity cards has raised the question of how easily NIDs -- the single most trusted identification verification document - can be forged.
The card gives access to all the details about a citizen and is widely used for registering land, getting utilities or telephone connections, buying SIMs (subscriber identity module), opening bank accounts and getting marriage certificates. It is worrying that this important personal document can be forged through using basic graphics editing software and printed out as any original one would look like by an ordinary colour printer (ink-jet).
Even the material used to make the card is the commonly available offset paper.
A ride to Nilkhetinthe capital and Tk 350 were all The Daily Star correspondents needed to get a fake NID within half an hour.
Several shops in Nilkhet, a known place for computer-based know-how, supplies fake NIDs to their clients and it is no secret. Among the markets there, Gausul Azam Supermarket and Bakushah Market have as many as 1,528 shops and most of these provide services like composing and printing various documents.
Asking people around, anyone will get directions to one of the shops that make fake NIDs. The final product looks the same as any NID issued by the Election Commission, except that the bar code on the back is invalid.
"You are going to use the identification card for opening a bank account - right? Then it will not be a problem. They [bank authorities! have no way to verify," said a technician at a shop in Causul Azam Supermarket.
Although banks ask for a photocopy of NID card as the primary identification document of the client, there is no way to verify whether it is real, the managing director of Pubali Bank said.
"We have no coordination with the database, and simply keep these for record," said Shafiqul Alam, managing director of Jamuna Bank.
The NID can be easily forged since it is simply a laminated colour printout, said Mohsin Ali, director of operations at the National Identification Card project.
On Friday night, Kadamtali police arrested two youths with 53,100 fake identity cards. The arrestees admitted that they had sold fake ID cards for as little as Tk 25-30 to those wishing to use them to buy mobile phone SIM cards. By doing this they remain traceless. Basic office equipment like a desktop computer and a printer were used to make the forged documents.
Deputy Commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Masudur Rahman expressed concern while talking to The Daily Star. Criminals who use mobile connections through those SIMs to conduct subversive activities cannot be traced.
The case filed following the arrest has been transferred to the AntiCorruption Commission for an investigation, said Abul Kalam Azad, an inspector of Kadamtoli Police Station.
"We prayed to the court for a seven-day remand, but were denied since the main investigation will be done by the ACC," he said.