The operatives of the Katsina State Police Command have arrested three suspected fraudsters for circulating fake naira notes in the state.
According to the report by AIT, the state’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP. Gambo Isah disclosed this in a press statement in Katsina, the state capital.
The three arrested suspects were identified as Anas Lawal who is 26 years, Abdulaziz Wada and Tasi’u Umar.
Narrating the circumstances that led to their arrest, SP. Gambo said luck ran out on the suspects when Anas Lawal who had in his possession bundles of fake Naira notes to the tune of six hundred thousand Naira was arrested by a police team on patrol, along Funtua – Katsina Road.
The statement further revealed that the suspects in the course of the investigation confessed to have received fake notes to the tune of one million Naira from one Usman Gombe in the company of Abdulaziz Wada.
Usman Gombe is however currently at large.
The suspect further revealed that he sold a bundle of the fake currency of N1000 notes to one Tasi’u Nura, at the cost of twenty thousand Naira.
The Police image maker added that efforts are ongoing to bring to book other accomplices involved in the fraud.