Afrigather The Nigeria Customs Service, (NCS), has lauded a few of its officers for rejecting a whopping bribe of $150,000 from a bunch of smugglers that had been arrested whereas attempting to smuggle $6 million faux greenback notes overseas.
Space Controller of the Command, Comptroller Dera Nnadi, mentioned the suspects had been intercepted at Seme border on January 31, 2023.
Throughout a press briefing, the NCS Spokesperson mentioned the officers of Seme Border Command had intercepted $6 million faux forex payments at Gbaji Customs examine level in Lagos.
Nnadi added that the worldwide passports of the faux forex syndicate working within the axis had been additionally confiscated.
He additional defined that the smugglers had supplied the customs officers on obligation a bribe of $150,000 genuine greenback notes by way of the top of the crew, Musa Istifanus Datsok.
In line with him, the syndicate requested passage to take the faux forex overseas, however the customs officers rejected the bribe.
Nnadi mentioned; “A few of these currencies bear the identical serial quantity, and in addition to that, it is going to be very troublesome so that you can establish them as faux. Much like this, we additionally arrested simply few hours after this, two different passengers in a special car, whereas looking out them, we found some worldwide passports that belong to Malta Republic.
All of the six passports we acquired bear the identical pictures of the identical particular person, however with totally different names. The passport belongs to the republic of Malta, however bears the {photograph} of somebody who seems to be a European and bearing totally different names for all of the six passports.
The identical girl additionally has six worldwide driver’s licenses bearing her {photograph} with six totally different names which reveals that we’re coping with a really severe syndicate that strikes throughout the borders. Now we have two suspects every for the forex and worldwide passports.”
