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A spiritualist, Yusuf Ali alias Mallam Baba, suspected to be a source of United States fake dollars circulating in the country, was on Wednesday arraigned before the Accra Circuit Court for possessing fake notes amounting to $9,500.
Baba, a resident of Nungua in Accra, pleaded not guilty to the charge and was granted bail in the sum of GH¢20,000 with two sureties to be justified. Baba will reappear on September 7, 2011.Prosecuting, Superintendent Abichab Boye, told the court that in July 2011, the police had information that a mallam at the Hydrafoam Estate, Nungua, was the source of the circulation of fake United States currency notes within the major cities of the country.He said a team of personnel from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service trailed the suspect and arrested him based on a further information that he was about to give a large sum of fake US currency notes to an unsuspecting victim.Superintendent Boye said after the arrest of the suspect and while he was being escorted in his own car, a Toyota Corolla with registration number GT 5395 Z, to his residence at the Regional Maritime University area, a black case in which he had concealed the $9,500 fake notes fell down from a hidden compartment under the steering wheel.The suspect, he said, admitted dealing in fake dollar notes and pleaded with the police to have the issue resolved, but they turned down his plea.The suspect also had in his possession black papers in bundles, cut to the size of the US $100 note and a syringe.
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