The Nigerien police seized 19 million FCFA of counterfeit notes from Benin. Two people of Niger nationality were arrested after this seizure.

The Central Office for the Repression of Illicit Drug Trafficking (OCRTIS) of Gaya, announces that it has seized, in Niamey in a bus belonging to a passenger transport company, 19 million CFA francs in counterfeit banknotes from Cotonou (Benin) . In a press briefing held on Friday March 18, 2022, Police Commissioner Nana Aichatou Ousmane Bako gave details of the discovery of these counterfeit banknotes.

According to the Nigerien authorities, this seizure is in addition to that of five million counterfeit banknotes operated a few weeks ago by agents of this same unit (OCRTIS), following the same itinerary and the same modus operandi. Two people of Niger nationality were arrested after this seizure. He is an employee of a bank in Niger and an agent of a public shipping company.