France arrests 12 people for faking Algerian money

French Police arrested 12 people for printing 50 fake Algerian Dinars in the city of Lion, AFP reported Monday citing a French judicial source.

• A close source to investigation says its one of the important money counterfeiting-related cases handled in France for the last ten years. The police have been keeping watch on the suspects since April.
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• The police found the suspects’ printing machine and Algerian money they had already stolen in Marseille in 2006 along with other sums of fake money.
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• According to the same source, the suspects are French and they were caught red-handed.
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• Investigators say the fake money was intended to be sent to the Algerian market but they did not find out how it can arrive to the country.
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• Algeria’s judicial police and the National Gendarmerie worked on many fake money-related cases. People in many areas of the country were victim of counterfeiters.