July 17, 2009
BANGKOK: Thai police have confiscated more than 13,000 pieces of fake RM50 notes with a face value of between RM650,000 and RM750,000 in Lopburi on Tuesday.
The money was found during a police raid on a former top army official’s house in the province where authorities also seized some weapons.
Police Col Akradej Pimolsri, chief of the Criminal Suppress Division 2, said police made the seizure following a tip-off over the former official storing weapons in his house.
He said two suspects, aged 36 and 37, claimed that they were caretakers of the house located in the province where several army camps are located.
A Thai policeman said they believed that the ringgit notes were printed in Thailand and that it was the biggest seizure in years.
“Earlier there was information that fake ringgit notes were being printed in Cambodia,” he said. — Bernama
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