Detachments of the Anti-Crime Directorate arrested two persons accused of defrauding citizens of foreign currency that has no value.
A statement by the Directorate stated, “The detachments of the Green Office for Combating Crime were able to arrest two suspects for fraudulent operations with sums of money against citizens by selling them foreign currency, “Belarusian”, which has no value in Baghdad.”
The statement indicated that the arrest process took place upon the recurrence of several similar cases of fraud, and the formation of a work team for research and investigation, and after collecting information, the perpetrators were reached and arrested, as they explicitly admitted through the investigation that they had carried out 6 similar fraud operations by selling this foreign currency that it has no value within the areas of Hay al-Jamaa, al-Ghazalia, al-Tubji, and Abu Dashir within the capital, Baghdad. Their statements were recorded and the confession was judicially certified, and they were arrested in accordance with the provisions of Article 456 of the Penal Code.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency