Reu , but also other companies – French firm Arjo Wiggins , Crane AB of USA and Louisenthal , Germany !
What is most disturbing is that the information of compromise in security features of the paper for currency had at different times been withheld from the Home and Finance Ministry of India .
Following the quality breach by De La Rue , in September-October 2010 , the government tested samples of currency paper supplied by other companies as well . On November 3 , 2010 , BRBNMPL ( Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Ltd ) — which signs currency note contracts on behalf of the RBI — wrote to the Directorate of Currency , Ministry of Finance , that currency paper supplied by Crane AB of USA and Louisenthal , Germany , had failed tests in Hoshangabad as well but cleared re-tests at the suppliers ’ foreign laboratories .
The complaint notes , “ BRBNMPL in their letter of 3rd November 2010 , concealed the failure of paper supplied by Arjo Wiggins ( a French company ) from the Ministry of Finance as detected in the tests conducted on Arjo Wiggins paper at Hoshangabad ”.
In 2015 , after Modi sought help in investigations in the fake currency notes from the US , it came out that the German company Louisenthal was also selling raw notes to Pakistan , resulting in a ban on the company .
The Home Ministry has barred a German company , Louisenthal , from selling bank note paper to the Reserve Bank of India ( RBI ) after it