Forged currency seized in southeast of Sulaimaniya

SULAIMANIYA / IraqiNews.com: Police forces seized an amount of forged Iraqi currency in the possesion of a bride and a groom at a checkpoint in the southeast of Sulaimaniya, the Sharazour police department said on Monday. “The forces seized 1.350 million Iraqi dinars with a groom and a bride at a checkpoint near Halabja district in southeast of Sulaimaniya,” the police department said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com news agency. “They were arrested on Tuesday (May 19),” it added. “Investigation still underway,” it noted. The statement gave no further details. Sulaimaniya is 364 km north of Baghdad . SH (P)/SR 1