In St. Petersburg, three local residents and two visitors from Uzbekistan were detained for selling counterfeit dollars. This was reported by the investigative authorities of the Investigative Committee of Russia in the region.
The detainees, as it turned out, were selling dollars printed in Turkey, notes the Operational Cover portal. It is clarified that the crime was discovered when a 58-year-old Petersburg resident contacted the police with a statement. He said that in one of the messengers he found an opportunity to buy currency, and as a result, an unknown person sold him 240 banknotes with a face value of 100 US dollars in the Sberbank office for a total of 2,261,168 rubles. The buyer asked the bank to check the bills and found out that they were counterfeit.
As a result, a 22-year-old unemployed resident of the Lomonosovsky district of the Leningrad region was detained. He became a defendant in a criminal case.
Later, three more people were detained for complicity in the acquisition, sale, transportation, and storage of these counterfeit banknotes – a 37-year-old organizer and two of his assistants, 21 and 18 years old. Two Uzbek citizens were also detained, whose bank accounts were used to pay and exchange counterfeit money.
According to operatives, the currency was manufactured in Turkey and delivered to Russia through a logistics company.
During the searches, phones, laptops and $26,000 were confiscated from those involved in the case.
Source: Rosbalt
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