Algerian Woman Smuggles Counterfeit Hard Currency From Europe

Algiers Dar Bida Court’s investigating judge ordered the second chamber to deposit a woman,40s, in temporary detention of the penal institution after discovering her involvement in the smuggling of counterfeit hard currency towards Algeria from France and then circulating it on the black market using a forged passport and the identity of another woman to travel between Algeria and a number of European countries over the past period, until she was arrested at the level of the international airport with counterfeit 1400 euros in her bag.

According to the information that was obtained by Echorouk on the file, the border police authorities managed to arrest the suspect last February, in coordination with the customs agents of Algiers international airport Houari Boumediene after they received information about her suspicious movements in the transfer of counterfeit money from Europe illegally.

The person that reported her provided precise details of the dates of her arrival in Algiers and the flight and even her personal information.

Upon her arrival, the suspect was subjected to inspection at the second checkpoint by the scanner and security services found in her luggage 1,400 euros, which, after being presented to the laboratory, were found to be counterfeit. In addition, it was found that the passport with which she was travelling was also counterfeit.

On the other hand, the defendant was heard and a formal record was released that contains her confessions of the crime that was attributed to her, and she also acknowledged that she smuggled counterfeit money several times through the international airport, before heading towards her residence in Oran (western Algeria), where she exchanged them in the currency black market at the request of her husband.

The accused also said that her husbands’ second wife was the one who had reprimanded her, for being the only one to learn about her activity together with their husband, and to refer the file to justice for trial on charges of violating the customs legislation and the regulation of the movement of capital and money, and the charge of forgery and the use of counterfeit in official editors, as the judge decided to postpone the file, on Tuesday, for next week and the subsequent dismissal because the defence did not attend the trial.