The fight against organized crime gang arrested promote fake currency difficult to detect
The fight against organized crime gang arrested promote fake currency difficult to detect
Posted, 04/02/2015
BAGHDAD / JD / .. revealed the Organized Crime Directorate in the arrest of a gang promote fake currency in Baghdad, while confirming that the currency which has been tuned with counterfeiters withstand high qualities and close to the original.
The Director General of the Directorate of Organized Crime, Major General Hussein al-Shammari, told / BD /: managed anti-counterfeiting department of the Directorate of the fight against organized crime, the currency of the arrest of a gang promote fake currency in Baghdad.
Roy Shammari arrest the gang details, saying: The Directorate received information indicating that there is a group of people are trading in counterfeit currency in the city of Baghdad, where he was pushing one of our officers as a dealer for the purpose for the purchase of one million Iraqi dinars, than ten thousand dinars category.
He continued: It was agreed to buy all the false million b 300 000 Iraqi dinars original, and select the deadline to bring the required amount, and ambushed a gang confident in the yard near the Sunrise Building, after the approval of the full Asthsalna fundamentalism of the judiciary.
He added: during pick-up and delivery process have been arrested and accused of possession of counterfeit currency worth up to 12 million 500 thousand dinars, indicating that the defendants had confessed during the investigation to a person who was providing them with this currency.
Shammari noted that in this strange currency she was carrying high and close to the qualities of the original currency, stressing that the defendants were arrested in accordance with Article 52 of the Iraqi Central Bank Law.
The Finance Committee has revealed last year’s high rate of counterfeit currency deposited in the Central Bank, while confirming that the number of banknotes that have been exposed of the 2000 paper out of more than 88 million paper.
The central bank has asked a few months ago all banks to disclose proceedings against depositors fake banknotes.
In 2014, the Interior Ministry announced the arrest of a gang in possession of 12 million dinars false, asserting that the gang admitted rigging 3 billion dinars. / Description on /
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