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by Jayampathy Jayasinghe

Several officers from Counterfeit Currency Bureau of the CID were despatched to Peradeniya police yesterday following the recovery of fake dollar US notes from a house in Penideniya, Peradeniya, sources said.

OIC Peradeniya, Chief Inspector K. M. S. Bowela said on a tip off, a decoy who posed off as a businessman was sent to a house in Penideniya to purchase 100 Dollar currency notes from three persons offering them for sale. There were 58 notes altogether in one hundred US Dollar bills.

The notes were in the possession of three persons. Of the three persons two are from Colombo and the other is from Penideniya.

The detection was made on Thursday around 7 p.m. Meanwhile police learnt that on an earlier occasion too the same gang had made attempts to sell forged currency.

The Counterfeit Currency Bureau officers will further investigate whether the currency notes are fake or genuine ones.

The suspects were produced before the Kandy Magistrate who remanded them pending completion of investigations.

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