Fears from spread of false 10,000 dinar notes in Nassirya, south Iraq

THI-QAR / IraqiNews.com: A number of currency dealers in southern Iraq ’s Nassirya city have expressed fear on Wednesday from the spread of a new false 10,000-dinar notes, that can’t be easily discovered.   “We have noticed the existence of a false 25,000-dinar currency in the market, being cautious against it, but a new false 10,000-dinar currency, with a very close print to the original currency, had been spread last week,” Shop-keeper, Ali Ahmed told IraqiNews.com news agency, saying that “this is a very serious matter and the government must stop it in every   possible means.”   Ali Nuseif, a petrol filling station worker said that the “number of cars trying to fill petrol in his filling station was huge, and he and his colleagues can’t   easily   differentiate between real and false currencies.”   On his part, the Chairman of the Security Committee in Thi-Qar Province, where Nassirya is its center city, called on citizens to be vigilant against such currencies, saying: “we had not faced such case and nobody had presented a case about the presence of false currency in the Province,” calling on the mass media to “uncover persons, behind the spread of such currency, in order to foil their criminal plans.”   Nassirya, the center of Thi-Qar Province , is 380 km to the south of Baghdad .   SKH (IT) .   1611