Millions of false currencies. Spectacular action of customs officers

From the beginning of 2025, the Security Service – Customs Service, the Police and the gendarmerie – confiscated over 34 billion CFA francs, or about $ 34 million, put on the market by international counterfeiters.

This amount was calculated by the African APA press agency after analyzing the official press messages of these services.

The spectacular occupation by Senegalese customs officers took place on the night of May 1-2, when 10 million false euros and 1.5 million counterfeit dollars were captured in the suburbs of Dakar.

Two weeks later, on May 15, customs officers confiscated 4.7 thousand. Banknotes with a denomination of 500 euros each in Silinkine, near the border with Gamba.

According to reports of African central banks, 1 to 2 percent are counterfeit in West Africa. banknotes in circulation. And in 2017, the Vice -President of the Nigeria Bank, Obadia Mailafia, argued that As much as 20 percent in this country The currency is false. (PAP)

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