Wednesday, 28 July 2010

Fake money gang washed up

Twenty arrested in 300,000 euros fraud scam

By Tom Cain
NATIONAL Police in Alicante have arrested 20 people in connection with a 300,000 euros scam known as the 'wash- wash'.

Of the 20 arrested, eight are from Alicante, nine from Murcia and three from San Vicente del Raspeig.

Police say the gang made up of three Spaniards with the rest coming from Cameroon, Nigeria, New Guinea and the Ivory Coast, tricked people into buying money which they claimed had been treated with a chemical to make it appear like normal paper in order to get it through customs. They said that by washing the paper in another chemical solution it would revert to its natural state and become legal tender again.

Read more in this week's Costa Blanca News edition

Comments (1)

	1. Written by Brian Stodel on 28-07-2010 17:38
	Mr I went to work in Nigeria in 1983 and stayed for 21 years and this 'scam'[419 in Nigeria] was common from my first days....it took a long time to get to Spain!

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