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Court remands two currency traffickers
in police custody
Aflao, July 17, Ghanadot/GNA - An Aflao Circuit Court
presided over by Group Captain Justice Martin Obeng-Ntim (rtd)
on Tuesday remanded two Nigerians alleged to possess fake
new Ghana Cedi notes into police custody.
The pleas of Michael Akinniyi Adetayo 35 and Sunday Olaole
Ogundeyi 36 charged with conspiracy to possess and
possessing fake currency notes, were not taken and would
re-appear on August 31.
Officials of Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS)
arrested the two accused persons at the Aflao border at
about 0630 hours last Saturday in possession of 11 fake new
Ghana cedi notes during a routine examination on them while
on their way to Lome, Togo.
CEPS sources said they alleged that they unknowingly
acquired the notes when they changed some naira into cedis
last Friday in Lome while on their way from Nigeria to Accra
and made some shopping and were on their way back to Nigeria
when they were arrested.
Meanwhile, personnel of Ghana Police Service and their
Togolese counterparts on Monday undertook a joint operation
in Lome to verify the claim of the accused that they
acquired the fake notes from currency dealers in Lome.
However, they were unable to identify the area and those who
changed the money for them.
GNA
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