BANGKOK: Thai police have confiscated more than 13,000 pieces of fake Malaysian RM50 notes with face value amounting to 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 outside Bangkok where authorities also seized weapons. Pol Col Akradej Pimolsri, chief of the Criminal Supress Division 2, told the media here that police made the seizure following a tip-off that the former army official was storing weapons in his house. He said the two suspects, aged 36 and 37, claimed that they were caretakers of the house located in the province where several army camps were located. A Thai policeman said they believed that the ringgit notes were printed in Thailand and it was the biggest seizure in years.
"Earlier there was information that fake ringgit notes were being printed in Cambodia. But now we have some information that it could be printed outside Bangkok," he said. On Wednesday, Thai police arrested a 36-year-old carrying fake US currency with face value of Bt13 million at the Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Centre here.
The man told police that he was a former police informant and was carrying the money for a police sting operation.
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