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A young man was arrested in Chimoio city, Manica province, on Saturday, after being caught trying to purchase a shaver using counterfeit notes from the new metical series.
The accused, who has confessed, related how it happened.
“On Wednesday, I had the idea of photocopying money, which I did on Friday. On Saturday, I went into a Chinese store as I had the idea of buying shaving machines, but they realized that the notes were fake. I ran away, but I was captured by the population,” he said.
The accused did not reveal where he actually reproduced the money, saying “I only made photocopies at work and I prefer not to say where, so my boss is not guilty of having a dishonest employee”.
Mouzinho Manasse, spokesman for the Provincial Police Command in Manica, said that the individual in question must answer for counterfeiting the national currency.
He also said that efforts were being made to determine where the accused reproduced the four thousand-meticais notes.
This is the first reported case of counterfeiting of the new metical banknotes, which came into circulation on June 16.
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