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Customs Intercept Fake $6m, 39,000 Litres Of Petrol

Juliet Amaka
Juliet Amaka
Published: June 13, 2025
Last updated: June 13, 2025
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The Seme Border Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), on Thursday, said it intercepted $6m (N2.7billion at official rate of N425/$1) fake United States dollars from transborder currency traffickers.

The Customs Area Controller in charge of the command, Dera Nnadi, while addressing journalists at the command on Thursday, said the currency seizure was made on Tuesday, January 31, 2033, at Gbaji checkpoint, adding that the smugglers promised to bribe the Customs officers that intercepted the fake currency with $150,000 original currency.

Giving details of the fake dollars, he said that all the currencies have the same serial number.

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“On January 31, 2023, Customs officers at Gbaaji checkpoint, intercepted a vehicle carrying two passengers. And upon intercepting them, they discovered these currencies your seeing here which are fake US dollars.

“When we counted them it was worth $6,000,000 in $100 wraps. But it will only take the eye of a trained officer to dictate that they are fake. One of the landmarks we discovered was that they bear the same serial numbers.

“Besides that, it will be very difficult for you to discover that they were fake. Few people were arrested with regards to this.”

Nnadi said the command also intercepted 39,000 litres of Petroleum Motor Spirit with a duty-paid value of N9 million also about to be taken out of the country.

“Also intercepted was 30 litres each of 1,300 jereycans of PMS along the creeks. We have two suspects for the fake currency and two suspects for the PMS.”

He further disclosed that the command intercepted six international passports bearing the same pictures but with different names and nationals.

“Few hours after this other passengers in a different vehicle, upon searching them and their baggage, we discovered some international passports.

“These passports you’re seeing here are for the Malta Republic. But one unique thing about them is that all the passports, six of them bear the photograph of the same person but with different names.

“The passports were from the Republic of Malta bear the photographs of someone supposedly a European lady but bearing different names for all the six passports.”

“The same lady also had six international drivers’ licenses bearing her photographs but with six different names.

“The significance of this is that we are dealing with a very dangerous syndicate here that moves across the border.

“You all know that the election is around the corner and we also know what the country is going through a lot of which the military is doing its best to curtail.

“With these developments around here is a dangerous trend. The passports were also going out of the country and we were intercepted at Gbatrume.

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