Fake $US smugglers denounced and arrested at the border

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Fake $US smugglers denounced and arrested at the border

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Fortunately police informants were on the ball...

Smugglers caught with thousands of fake dollar bills
7 June 2017
Police in Battambang have arrested three Thai men and a Cambodian for attempting to smuggle counterfeit notes worth more than $55,000 over the border from Thailand.
The men were apprehended as they tried to take the fake $100 banknotes through Duong International Border Checkpoint in Kamrieng district.
The Thai suspects were named as Keat Thesak, 35, Samjit Kamphum, 34, and Ung Ath Siwatkon, 28. The Cambodian man was identified as Beth Sopha, 37.

District police officer First Lieutenant Khann Mao said the arrests were made on Saturday after police informants alerted officers to the crime.
“We were informed that a group of smugglers were planning to traffic counterfeit money into the country.

“Our police arrested the smugglers and seized $55,300 in fake bills when they were crossing the border into Cambodia,” Lt Mao said, adding the fake banknotes had been packed in a brown plastic bag.
He said police are preparing evidence for the provincial court and the men faced up to ten years in prison if convicted.
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Re: Fake $US smugglers denounced and arrested at the border

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True that these four don't look like the sort of blokes that would be carrying $55,000 in hard earned cash on them.
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Looks like the police officer is checking the fake notes on his phone ?
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Counterfeit Cash Fraudsters Nabbed at Border
Police in Battambang province arrested three Thai nationals and a Cambodian man on Monday night after the group crossed the border from Thailand with $55,300 in counterfeit U.S. dollars they intended to trade for Thai baht, authorities said on Tuesday.

“The suspects told us they were sent by a Thai businessman to Cambodia to bring the fake dollar currency to exchange for baht currency,” said Tith Kul, deputy police chief of Kamrieng district.

Mr. Kul said his officials discovered the counterfeit bills while inspecting one of the men’s bags in Boeng Raing commune at about 11:30 p.m. on Monday.
“We stopped the four people to check for explosive weapons,” he said...
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