Police arrest two for trading with fake dollars
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The two suspects, Kenneth Anarfi, aged 51, and Philip Chorkson, aged 37, were already on the police wanted list after a complaint was made on September 24, 2021.
The Police have arrested two men for buying items with counterfeit dollar currencies.
According to police, they went to a shop at Tuba, a suburb of Accra, and purchased electrical cables and other items valued at GHc 16,550.00, and paid the same in its dollar equivalent of $2,600 which was suspected to be fake currency.
The two suspects, Kenneth Anarfi, aged 51, and Philip Chorkson, aged 37, were already on the police wanted list after a complaint was made on September 24, 2021.
“Also, a search conducted in their place of abode led to the retrieval of items including, deep freezers, air conditioners, TV sets, 39 gallons of engine oil, bags of rice, tomato paste, electrical cables, 2 laptops, boxes of nails, gas cylinders, fake US dollar notes, new head pans, frozen fish and chicken and other products in large quantities suspected to be proceeds of their fraudulent engagements,” the police said.
The police have asked the public to volunteer information to help them uncover the remainng aspects of fraudulent operations perpetrated by the two suspects.
