African illegal immigrants involved in money forgery in Algeria
The criminal court of Algiers will start looking at the case of gang of African nationals involved in a huge trafficking of forged currencies and State’s seals of various official institutions as of February 2011.
- The number of Africans, who are currently in detention pending their trial, has reached 37 individuals including three Algerians , one in prison and two others in temporary release. They are charged with sheltering foreigners illegally and transporting them without prior permit from local authorities.
- The big number of Africans involved in this huge trafficking, nearly 40 individuals, gives a clear evidence about the existence of an organized organization specialized in forgery.
- Although no further details were revealed about the case, all it seems that these jobless Africans have resorted to monkey business in a bid to garner money in a record time.
- They use cutting-edge technologies like scanners and chemical products brought from their home countries to forge all types of local and foreign currencies then sell them to the Algerian citizens, or use them for their own profit.
- Most of the Africans involved in these illegal practices reach they Algerian soil through the southern borders more specifically from the farthest location of the Algerian south called Bordj Badji Mokhrtar.