The Kano State Police Command has arrested three persons for being in possession of counterfeit currencies amounting to N129,542,826,000:00.
The Police Public Relations Officer of the Command, SP Haruna Kiyawa, disclosed this to journalists in Kano on Tuesday in an emergency press briefing.
He gave a breakdown of the money which include US Dollars, CFA and Naira as those also stolen from another dealer of the funds.
The breakdown of the fake currencies were given as $3,366,000, CFA51,970,000 and N1,443,000.
Kiyawa added that the two individuals arrested with the money and the person from whom they were stolen have been apprehended and are currently in police custody helping with investigation on the actual producers of the counterfeit money.
In addition, Kiyawa revealed, the command has recovered six live ammunition, three tricycles, eight motorcycles and three parcels of 175 wraps of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp.
The command has also recovered 250 pieces of diazapam tablets, 278 sheep and seven cattle as part of recoveries made by its operatives.
He said these approaches have resulted not only to the apprehension of criminals but also serves as a deterrent to potential offenders from engaging in criminal activities.
“Major cases of kidnapping, armed robbery, thuggery and drug dealings have been surmounted” the PPRO stated.
