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Thu, 09/10/2009 - 15:20
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Dubai Customs inspectors foil bid to smuggle fake money
Dubai, Sept 10, 2009 (WAM) - Inline with the great efforts made to protect the local community from prohibited goods, Passengers Operations Department at Dubai Customs- Airport Terminal 2 has recently managed to foil a bid to smuggle fake paper money of (Dh100, 200 and 500) carried by an Arab passenger who was arriving from an Arab country.
Dubai Customs inspectors suspected the Arab passenger when he was standing at the inspection point at Airport Terminal 2 who looked tensed. A well-trained customs inspector noticed these suspicious signs and drew his fellow inspectors' attention to the implications of his body language and he was monitored and meticulously checked.
At the beginning inspectors could not find illegal materials while searching the passenger's luggage by the detector machines or even manual search to the luggage. Hence, they decided to search him as they notices a plump in his trousers' pockets. They asked him to empty his pockets and when asked to do so he showed more confusion and anxiety. Inspectors' doubts increased when they saw that kind of behaviour but it was all justified when they found out that he had different categories of Emirati dirhams with a total of Dh 268000.
Inline with the mutual coordination and cooperation between Dubai Customs and Dubai Police, the passenger along with the seized money were transferred to the Police who in their turn transferred the seizure to the Forensic Science and Criminology Department at Dubai Police.
The laboratory tests there showed that these paper money categories were thoroughly duplicated, except for a single Dh100 that was not false, to the extent that average people could not recognize them.
Saleh Al Mugahwi, Senior Manager of Passengers Operations Department at Dubai Customs, said:” Dubai Customs makes great efforts in the field of combating all kinds of smuggling, among which smuggling fake currency which reflects negatively on the UAE's economy. This is achieved by hiring highly qualified cadres as Dubai Customs inspectors go through a number of specialized courses in body language and developing the sense of security as well as customs monitoring. They also receive training programs regularly on self-inspection methods, searching luggage using the x-ray machines to detect smugglers who try to bring prohibited and illegal products to the UAE.”
Dubai Customs inspectors suspected the Arab passenger when he was standing at the inspection point at Airport Terminal 2 who looked tensed. A well-trained customs inspector noticed these suspicious signs and drew his fellow inspectors' attention to the implications of his body language and he was monitored and meticulously checked.
At the beginning inspectors could not find illegal materials while searching the passenger's luggage by the detector machines or even manual search to the luggage. Hence, they decided to search him as they notices a plump in his trousers' pockets. They asked him to empty his pockets and when asked to do so he showed more confusion and anxiety. Inspectors' doubts increased when they saw that kind of behaviour but it was all justified when they found out that he had different categories of Emirati dirhams with a total of Dh 268000.
Inline with the mutual coordination and cooperation between Dubai Customs and Dubai Police, the passenger along with the seized money were transferred to the Police who in their turn transferred the seizure to the Forensic Science and Criminology Department at Dubai Police.
The laboratory tests there showed that these paper money categories were thoroughly duplicated, except for a single Dh100 that was not false, to the extent that average people could not recognize them.
Saleh Al Mugahwi, Senior Manager of Passengers Operations Department at Dubai Customs, said:” Dubai Customs makes great efforts in the field of combating all kinds of smuggling, among which smuggling fake currency which reflects negatively on the UAE's economy. This is achieved by hiring highly qualified cadres as Dubai Customs inspectors go through a number of specialized courses in body language and developing the sense of security as well as customs monitoring. They also receive training programs regularly on self-inspection methods, searching luggage using the x-ray machines to detect smugglers who try to bring prohibited and illegal products to the UAE.”
