Fake Military Officer Steals Money In Forged Hard Currency Exchange

Algiers Criminal Court dealt a with the case of a man, 50, who disguised as an official in the army in order to steal citizens’ money by soliciting them in a fake exchange of currency, including the victim in the case, who lost 1.300.000 DZD.

The defendant, according to the facts of Wednesday’s trial session, belonged to a group that is led by the most dangerous swindler in Algeria called, “Sheikh Mohammed”, who is judicially preceded in dozens of criminal cases in theft and forgery, and each time he formed a new gang for the exploitation of people in his group, including an airline engineer of Mauritanian nationality, and a Libyan currency broker who disguised as a police officer during a mock raid on the victims. 

He also called the defendant in the case “F.Y” and asked him to be present with his gang, and disguise as an army official, in the context of exchange and transfer of huge sums to the hard currency.

The facts of the present case are summarized in the mediation of the accused by a victim and the attempt to isolate him in isolated places between Algiers Dar Beida and Darguana, east of the capital, in order to discharge the mentioned amount into the euro currency, and to give him a package of papers, including a fake 100 euros, during this process, the other accomplices intervened while they were wearing as police officers and disguised as anti-counterfeiters, then they assaulted them and took them in a car, later claiming to have been the victim of a professional gang. 

In his appeal, the prosecutor sought him 20 years in prison sentence for the seriousness of the facts.