Pair arrested with fake dollars

Dubai police have arrested two men who were trying to exchange counterfeit American dollars in the black market, an official said.

The two Arabs were caught while trying to exchange fake currency — purportedly worth Dh30,000.

Colonel Omar Mohammad Bin Hamad, deputy director of the Anti-Economic Crime Department, said they were tipped off about the two men trying to sell the fake dollars. “We set a trap for the pair by sending an undercover police officer to meet them. He told them that he would buy the dollars and we arrested them when they met,” Col Bin Hamad said. The suspects handed over the fake dollars to the police officer who inspected them quickly before giving a signal to other policemen to raid the place and arrest the suspects.

“They confessed to possessing fake dollars and trying to exchange them for dirhams,” he added.