A man has been reportedly nabbed with N272,000 fake N1000 notes in the city of Benin, Edo state. Operatives of the Edo State Police Command has arrested a man in his mid 30s, Monday Awolowo, for being in possession of fake N1,000 notes.
It was gathered that intelligence gathering led the operatives to the house of the suspect, where, the sum of N272,000 of fake N1000 notes were recovered from him after a thorough search.
The police Command said the investigation into the matter was still ongoing to determine the source of the fake bank notes.
According to the suspect who said he had been a taxi driver since 2010, the desire to survive pushed him into the crime.
He said in 2018, some of his friends advised him to abandon taxi driving for a more profitable venture of using fake N1000 notes for business transaction.
“My thought was that the victims could also be lucky to use the fake notes without being detected,” h
The state police spokesman, DSP Chidi Nwabuzor, while confirming the report, however, said that the suspect is a kidnapper.
He said;
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