3 Arrested over fake currency

Page 48: Daily Graphic, March 10, 2010.
Story: Albert K. Salia
THREE members of a family, including a father and his son, were yesterday arrested for allegedly dealing in fake dollar notes.
A bag containing some of the fake dollars in $100 bills and dollar-size plain papers were retrieved from the residence of the three at Abossey Okai in Accra.
The suspects, Robert Gokeh Mensah, 37, his father, Robert Kwesi Mensah, 53, and Nyamikeh Mensah, 50, are currently in custody at the Accra Regional Police Command for further investigations.
The three were picked up about 2:30 a.m. yesterday when operatives of the National Security Secretariat had a tip-off that some persons were transacting business at the residence of the three and that the transactions were suspected to border on cocaine.
A source close to the operations team told the Daily Graphic that when the team got to the house, the bag containing the fake dollars was found in one of the rooms.
It said Gokeh claimed the bag had been given to him a month ago by a cousin of his whom he identified only as Kwame.
It said when Gokeh was asked if he knew the contents of the bag, he said he did not know.
The source said Gokeh claimed Kwame had promised to come for the bag when need be but that he had since not come for it, although Kwame visited Gokeh often.