The Niger National Police announced that the Police Station of the 1st Communal District of Zinder has dismantled a criminal network, composed of four (04) counterfeiters of bank notes.

Le réseau de criminels arrêté by the police station specializes in the possession and circulation of counterfeit banknotes in the region from Zinder. It is composed of two (2) students regularly enrolled at André Salifou University in Zinder, who are responsible for selling counterfeit bills on the market. The modus operandi of these criminals is to use counterfeit bills to make purchases at retailers, in order to receive real money in exchange. The investigations made it possible to apprehend three (3) other members of the network, after having arrested a first member of the network when he bought counterfeit bills from a merchant. A large sum of counterfeit bills, worth fourteen million eight hundred seventy thousand (14,870,000) CFA francs was seized with two royal-brand motorcycles and three