General Security Busts Money Counterfeit Ring
The General Security Department said Friday that it has arrested several Lebanese and a Syrian in southern Lebanon for forming a money counterfeit network.
A patrol from the department raided two apartments in the southern towns of al-Dweir and Mayfadoun on Thursday and arrested four Lebanese and a Syrian national, it said in a communique.
The suspects were apprehended on charges of forming a counterfeit ring and the possession of a gun.
The members of the patrol confiscated a currency printing machine, and counterfeit bank notes and gold and silver coins, the communique added.
The case was referred to the judiciary for further investigation.
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