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02/19/2015
Long-Presse / Baghdad
Declared the fight against organized crime directorate, Thursday, for a gang arrest of two competent rigging the currency traded in during a security operation carried out in the capital, Baghdad, and as pointed out that the accused had confessed at they promoted the amount of counterfeit money and displayed in the local markets, stressed that the procedures are still continuing after the issuance of arrest warrants against another group on charges of counterfeiting.
He said the fight against organized crime chief Hussein al-Shammari, in a statement received (range Press), a copy of which, "The strength of the Anti-Crime Directorate able to arrest A gang of men and women are counterfeit coin ten thousand dinars category and currency US dollar rigging in one of the areas of the capital Baghdad ".
Shammari said, that "the operation was based on information received by the headquarters of the Anti-Crime Directorate where he was forming a working group and go to the scene of the crime, and ambushed implicated and arrested," asserting that "the defendants recognition during the investigation at they promoted the amount of counterfeit money and displayed in local markets
He Shammari, that the Directorate has taken legal action against the accused after recording Akhbarat affected citizens, "noting that" force found the forged amounts of up to 12 million Iraqis. "
He said al-Shammari, that "the process is still going on after the issuance of the arrest of another group falsify currency orders," noting that "the search is still going on for the purpose of arrest and hand them over to the judicial authorities to receive their just punishment."
It is noteworthy that Iraq has seen in previous years either before 2003 or after waves of counterfeit currency, began as a phenomenon in the nineties of the last century, after the imposition of economic sanctions on the country and the invasion of the former regime, Kuwait, as has the feet of Iraq to print its currency within the country to rising inflation indicators about is unprecedented, as well as the increasing incidence of counterfeiting at the time because of the lack of international standards adopted in printing currency.
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