'Money Changers' Raided

 

	Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site

The Daily Observer (Banjul)

March 12, 2003
Posted to the web March 12, 2003

Ousman Darboe
Banjul

The Immigration department in collaboration with the police yesterday raided and arrested more than thirty foreign illegal foreign exchange dealers who are said to be undergoing questioning at the police headquarters in Banjul.

The 'money changers' were picked up in and around the Greater Banjul Area.

Police sources told the Daily Observer that the men are being interrogated and asked to produce evidence of license for their business. They are also being asked to reveal which bureaux or banks they procure foreign currency from and to produce certificates of such transactions.

The clamp down on these foreign exchange dealers and the consequent interrogation exercise, which is reportedly being carried out by personnel of the Interpol, Criminal Investigation Department and the Crime Management Unit is believed to be an attempt to address the depreciation of the Dalasi against foreign or major international currencies.