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DIWANIYA / Aswat al-Iraq: Police in Diwaniya have discovered 68,000 US dollars in counterfeit currency and over 32,000 drug pills in a security operation in a village of southern Iraq's Diwaniya city, Diwaniya's police commander said on Tuesday.
"The Anti-Crime Forces in Diwaniya have arrested a dealer in foreign currency, with 68,000 counterfeit US dollars in his possession in central Diwaniya on Tuesday," Lt- Brigadier, Majid al-Zuheiry, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"Preliminary confessions have uncovered his ties to a large forgery gang that deal with counterfeit currency," he added.
"Security forces were also able to arrest a drug dealer in a Diwaniya district, and seized over 32,000 pills he was hiding in a photo-copy machine in a shop in the area," the source noted, stressing the existance of a large network of drug dealers in and around the province.
Diwaniya is 180 km to the south of Baghdad.
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"The Anti-Crime Forces in Diwaniya have arrested a dealer in foreign currency, with 68,000 counterfeit US dollars in his possession in central Diwaniya on Tuesday," Lt- Brigadier, Majid al-Zuheiry, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"Preliminary confessions have uncovered his ties to a large forgery gang that deal with counterfeit currency," he added.
"Security forces were also able to arrest a drug dealer in a Diwaniya district, and seized over 32,000 pills he was hiding in a photo-copy machine in a shop in the area," the source noted, stressing the existance of a large network of drug dealers in and around the province.
Diwaniya is 180 km to the south of Baghdad.
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