NSCDC smashes fake dollar syndicate, recovers $15,400 notes
Acting on credible intelligence, the Special Intelligence Squad of the Commandant General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has smashed a notorious fake dollar syndicate. It was gathered that the syndicate specialises in the printing, sales and distribution of fake United States Dollar notes. Director, Public Relations at the NSCDC headquarters, DCC Olusola Odumosu, said the syndicate had been operating for the past 10 years around 'Heart Plaza', Mararaba, under the bridge in Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, before luck ran out on them. The report also revealed that they had swindled many individuals of millions of naira under the guise of black market operators exchanging Nigerian naira for US Dollars thereby issuing fake dollar notes to their unsuspecting victims. In a clandestine operation carried out by the CG's SIS, the suspects were smoked out of their hideout in a sting operation which saw personnel trying to exchange the sum of N250,00...