The Kano State Police Command has arrested three persons for being in possession of counterfeit currencies amounting to N129,542,826,000:00.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Haruna Kiyawa, disclosed this today December 10. He gave a breakdown of the money which included US Dollars, CFA and Naira as those also stolen from another dealer of the funds.
“Counterfeit currencies equivalent to a total sum of One Hundred and Twenty-nine Billion, Five Hundred and Forty-two Million, Eight Hundred and Twenty-three Thousand Naira (N129,542,823,000:00) were recovered,” Kiyawa said
The PPRO gave the breakdown of the fake currencies as $3,366,000, CFA51,970,000 and N1,443,000.
He added that the two individuals arrested with the money and the person from who they were stolen have been apprehended and are currently in police custody helping with the investigation of the actual producers of the counterfeit money.
More so, the command has recovered six live ammunition, three tricycles, eight motorcycles and three parcels of 175 wraps of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp.
Kiyawa further revealed that the command has recovered 250 pieces of diazepam tablets, 278 sheep and seven cattle as part of recoveries made by its operatives.
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