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Chechen moneyman bagged
Police have detained a courier carrying a large sum of foreign currency to the rebel groups led by Abu al Walid and Shamil Basayev, representative of the regional headquarters for the anti-terrorist campaign in the North Caucasus Col. Ilya Shabalkin said. He said the police had confiscated $180,000 from Madina Atabayeva, born in 1960. $140,000 were counterfeit, and $40,000 were genuine, he said. The police have information that dollars transferred from abroad are being exchanged for counterfeit money in neighboring countries, possibly, Turkey, Azerbaijan or Georgia, Shabalkin said.Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-04-09 |
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