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Guinea police have raided
premises in different parts of the country where counterfeit currency was
being made, confiscating large amounts of fake local and foreign currency.
BBC
Africa Live report continues:
The
first raid took place in N'zérékoré,
a town to the south of the capital, Conakry.
A
Guinean woman was arrested as the alleged head of the counterfeit ring there
and the police say some of her accomplices include Nigerians and
Malians.
The
police also swooped on the town of Forecariah, on the border with Sierra Leone,
where tens of thousands of fake US dollars were discovered, along with
counterfeit euro notes.
The police discovered that
local traders and foreign exchange bureaus were happy to accept the notes,
unaware that they were fake.
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