Police Intercept $3.5m Fake Currency Notes In Nigeria

Osun police intercept $3.5m fake currency notes
Tunde Oyekola, Osogbo
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Osun State Police Command has intercepted the sum of $3.5 million (about N450 million) fake currency notes while three suspects were arrested in connection with the crime.




 
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The police said that the fake US dollar notes were intercepted on Monday at one of the observation points on the Ibadan/Akure road.

Parading the three suspects in Osogbo on Thursday, Osun State Commissioner of Police, Mr. John Moronike said that the suspects who were trafficking in fake currency notes were on their way to Abuja from where they planned to take off to Niger Republic.

Mr. Moronike gave the names of the suspects as Abdullai Olarenwaju (40), Mojeed Olawole (31) and Adejare Adeniji (42).

He said that the fake currency notes and the suspects were intercepted by 39 Police Mobile unit of the command.

Mr. Moronike described the interception of the suspects as a major breakthrough of the year at which fake currencies were being used to defraud innocent citizens in the country.

He said that the command had arrested three suspects who specialised in house breaking and stealing.

The commissioner said that the three suspects, Popoola Babatunde (21), Olarewaju Kazeem (21) and Saheed Suliman (23) who were arrested on October 1 following information provided by people said that the police recovered three single locally made barrels, pieces of rug, three mattresses and window blind and television sets from the suspects.

$3.5 million dollars, na waah. How did they hope to distribute all these money without being noticed?