2 people arrested with forged money in Thi-Qar

Iraq-People THI-QAR / IraqiNews.com: Police forces on Tuesday arrested two people and found 4.4 billion in forged Iraqi dinars in their possession in central Nassiriya, the media director of the Thi-Qar police said. “Acting on intelligence information, policemen arrested the two men who confessed during preliminary investigation to selling the forged local currency,” Colonel Sadeq al-Meshrefawi told IraqiNews.com news agency. Nassiriya, the capital of Thi-Qar, is 380 km south of Baghdad. SH (P)/SR 1