Detectives of
the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Intelligence Response Team, IRT, have
uncovered a hotel in Badagry area of Lagos, allegedly used for printing of fake
foreign currency.
Vanguard gathered that about
15 persons; eleven of who are Ghanaians and four Nigerians allegedly, used some
of the rooms in the hotel to print the fake foreign currencies.
The currencies as gathered were sold
to unsuspecting Nigerians who travel within the African continent, particularly
Ghana.
Luck, however, ran out on them after a team of the IGP
Intelligence Response Team, said to have acted on a tip off, stormed the hotel.
But on sighting the detectives, the suspects reportedly abandoned the fake
currencies in their hotel rooms and fled.
Vanguard gathered that when
one of the rooms was searched, two suit cases filled with fake Ghanaian
currencies were recovered.
Owner of the hotel with an
undisclosed identity, who was arrested over the recovery, denied knowledge of
the illegal business in his hotel, maintaining that it was not in their purview
to interfere in their guests private affairs.
He said: “I didn’t know what the suspects were doing. Our duty
is to check them in and whatever happens thereafter is unknown to us.”
Police sources disclosed that the suspects
from Ghana came into the country with the aid of an undisclosed transporter,
the police alleged to be conniving with foreigners.
“Moves are on to track the fleeing suspects
as well as the Nigerian transporter,“ Police sources said.
-Vanguard
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