THE Kano State Police Command has arrested three persons for being in possession of counterfeit currencies amounting to One Hundred and Twenty-Nine Billion, Five Hundred and Forty-Two Million, Eight Hundred and Twenty-Six Thousand Naira (N129,542,826,000) only.
The Command’s Spokesperson, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, revealed this while addressing journalists at a press briefing on Tuesday.
“Counterfeit currencies equivalent to a total sum of 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 whom they were stolen had been apprehended and are in police custody, helping with an investigation of the actual producers of the counterfeit money.
This momentous achievement was recorded on the 8th of December 2024, at Gwale, Kano State, where police operatives, acting on credible intelligence, accosted one Nura Ibrahim ‘m’ and upon a conducted search, discovered N392,000 counterfeit notes, USD7800 counterfeit notes and 5 different ATM cards. Further investigation led to the arrest of his accomplices, Muhammed Muntari ‘m’ and Usman Abdullahi ‘m’, as well as the recovery of the other counterfeit currencies, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), said in a statement.
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