Police grab two foreigners for printing fake currency

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The police have arrested two persons suspected to be involved in the production of fake currency notes in Accra.

The two suspects have been identified as Kamara Seidu, a Liberian, and Judith Koadue, a Camerounian, both aged 40.

They were in possession of counterfeit GH¢50 notes and pieces of paper cut to the size of the GH¢50 note.

Arrest

Briefing the Daily Graphic yesterday, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Accra Regional Police Command, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mrs Effia Tenge, said at about 2 p.m. last Wednesday, the Baatsona Divisional Police, acting on a tip-off, arrested the two suspects at a hotel along the Baatsona-Spintex Road.

The two, she said, were lodging in a room in the hotel and the police team that made the arrest retrieved various pieces of equipment used by the duo to make the counterfeit notes.

Discoveries

The items included two bottles of a liquid substance, a white polythene bag containing some washing powder, cotton wool and gloves all suspected to be items used in processing the fake currency notes.

DSP Tenge said the police also discovered nine pieces of GH¢50 notes which were later found to be fake.

Later when the police took the suspects to their residence at Nii Boi Town in Accra for a search, a pair of scissors, a cutter, 88 pieces of paper, cut into sizes of GH¢50, two bottles containing a liquid substance, two rolls of Sellotape, two bundles of white polythene bags and 60 sheets of paper all suspected to be materials for processing fake currencies, were found.

She said preliminary investigation had revealed that the suspects were fraudsters who swindled their victims under the pretext of doubling their money.

They take the genuine cash from the victims and give them the counterfeit currency as the money that has been doubled.

 

Source: graphic.com.gh

 


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Kennedy Mornah is an Award Winning Ghanaian Journalist with over two decades of experience in the Ghanaian Media landscape spanning the electronic, print and digital media. He is a Media Consultant, a Corporate MC, Radio and TV Host, Founder and Publisher of the Maritime and Transport Digest Newspaper, Businessman, a Go getter and an optimist. He has worked for renowned media organizations including Diamond Fm in Tamale, Luv Fm in Kumasi, Oman Fm in Accra and Starr Fm in Accra In 2017 he received the Reporter of the Year Award at the Ghana Shippers Awards in Accra, Ghana.

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