Fake currency: ANP official held with Rs4.25m
ANP) was arrested on charges of possessing fake currency notes worth Rs4.5 million
HARIPUR:
An office-bearer of the district chapter of the ruling Awami National Party (ANP) was arrested on charges of possessing fake currency notes worth Rs4.5 million on Monday evening. Acting on a tip-off, the city police intercepted a car (SK 460) near Tank Chowk on GT Road and seized 8,500 fake currency notes of Rs500 amounting to Rs4.25 million. Police also arrested ANP’s KP-50 Haripur constituency president Syed Akhtar Shah along with two of his accomplices, Mushtaq Elahi and Asim Iqbal. The police registered a case and started investigations.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 31st, 2012.
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