Police arrest three fake currency printers

Tema, Dec. 14, GNA - Tema Police have arrested three fake America dollar printers who duped an Ashaiman trader of 3.5 million cedis under the pretext of providing for her 2.4 million US dollars.

The suspects are Prince Onekwu, Micheal Uti, both Nigerian scrap dealers and Emmanuel Mensah, trader. The police retrieved from them 32 bundles of white papers cut into the size of the US dollar, with some of them already printed in the 100 dollar denomination.

Mr. Joe Danquah, Tema regional police commander said the suspects approached one Madam Adzo Dzanyikpor, a cloth seller at Ashaiman and said they were businessmen from South Africa to establish some businesses in Ghana.

The suspects, after collecting about 3.5 million cedis in various instalments from the woman, later brought her a brief case for safe keeping and that they would come back for it. Madam Dzanyikpor's husband who suspected a foul deal alerted the police who ambushed and arrested the three suspects.

When the briefcase was opened it contained the bundles and some fake currencies with a stamp "global financing and security" and a code number 9990. Mensah told the police that he was contacted by Onekwu, who was dating M Madam Dzanyikpor's daughter, to provide some chemicals for the printing while Uti said he was hired by Onekwu to under take the printing Uti admitted that he has been printing fake currencies, particularly the Nigerian naira. GNA