Fake $16,000 seized in Mozambique

About $16,000 (£11,500) of counterfeit notes have been seized in Mozambique, with investigators suspecting that a regional syndicate is specialising in printing fake currency.

Police said; ”they have arrested two Angolans, and arrest warrants for other suspects would be issued.”

”Mozambican, Angolan and South African nationals were suspected to be part of a currency-forging syndicate – though their attempts to forge Mozambique’s metical had failed,” Police said.

The detained Angolans have denied any wrongdoing. One of them said he was a businessman who had entered Mozambique legally two months ago, to look for business opportunities and had no idea why he had been arrested.

BBC/Mercy Chukwudiebere