The National Security has busted a 13-member gang involved in the printing and distribution of fake currency notes to unsuspecting victims, mostly foreign nationals.
A statement issued by the National Security Secretariat, copied to the Ghana News Agency, said the gang, led by one Yassei Alia, a 45-year-old Syrian resident in East Legon, and owner of Hardford Auto Service in Accra, together with Danjuma Zakaria, alias Alhaji Mohammed, 49 and resident of Tema West, were rounded up in a warehouse within the premises of NacCharter Cargo and Freight Company, near KLM offices within the Kotoka International Airport, on Monday, April, 27 at around 1730 hours,.
13-member gang arrested with over $5million in fake currency at KIA
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13-member gang with over $5 million fake currency busted at Airport
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The remaining are John Denyo, Desmond Delali Dumenu, Alike Happiness, Prosper Chukwu, Victor Israel, Padi Christian Holdbrook. They were busted in a warehouse within the premises of NacCharter Cargo and Freight Company, near KLM offices within the Kotoka International Airport, on Monday, April, 27 at around 1730 hours, the GNA reported. The National Security operatives retrieved fresh printed $10,000 bundles of fake $100 notes concealed in two large metal trunks and a suitcase and the amount was estimated to be over five million United States Dollars (USD). In their caution statement, it said Yassei and Mohammed, who drove to the warehouse in the former s car, denied knowledge of the deal.