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The defendant, who is jobless, was arrested in December last year after he tried to convert counterfeit $26,400 into dirhams at an exchange outlet in Al Rafaa.
He alleged that the bills got damaged after being mistakenly forgotten in clothes in the washing machine. The operations manager there checked the notes and realised they were counterfeit from the colour, texture and also because some had the same serial numbers.
A police corporal confirmed that the manager reported the incident the same day and said the accused had confessed to presenting fake bills and asked him not to report him to the police.
When the accused learnt that the money exchange office had called the police, he claimed he wanted to go to the restroom and fled the place.
Some days later, the police learnt that he lived in Ras Al Khaimah and got a warrant to arrest and search him and his house.
When interrogated by the police, the accused denied trying to circulate counterfeit notes. He claimed that he had received $30,000 from an exchange office in Deira. Then, the bills were somehow tarnished with ink and he used a chemical substance to clean them and dried them in a microwave oven. As the bills were damaged, he went to the exchange outlet in Al Rafaa to convert them into dirhams.
The Criminal Lab report showed the 264 bills of $100 were fake.
mary@khaleejtimes.com
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