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Police arrest men carrying 15,000 black-dyed counterfeit US dollar notes on Lombok
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West Nusa Tenggara Police and Lombok Barat Police officers count black dollars confiscated from two suspects in Mataram on Sept. 2. (JP/Panca Nugraha)
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est Nusa Tenggara Police, after teaming up with the Lombok Barat Police, arrested two men on Friday who were suspected of distributing black-dyed counterfeit dollars on Lombok.
The police confiscated 15,000 sheets of US$100 notes, amounting to US$1.5 million in fake money that had been dyed black to avoid detection.
West Nusa Tenggara Police spokesman Adj. Sr. Comr. Tribudi Pangastuti said the suspects were arrested when they were on their way to Mataram on Friday.
“Both just arrived from Jakarta through the airport carrying thousands of banknotes. The police arrested them when they were going to Mataram from the airport,” Tribudi said.
Tribudi said AB was a Mataram resident and a civil servant at the National Land Agency (BPN) in Lombok Utara while SY is a businessman from Bogor, West Java.
Police claim the two said they got the fake banknotes from a Nigerian named Anderson in Jakarta. “They said they paid Rp 30 million [US$2,269],” Tribudi said. (evi)
