Gang of six arrested selling fake North Korean banknotes in Pattaya

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Gang of six arrested selling fake North Korean banknotes in Pattaya

 

Picture: Sanook

 

A sting operation conducted by Chonburi provincial police netted six Thai suspects and 43 million won in fake North Korean notes.

 

The sting operation was conducted at a room in Sai 3 after a complaint received from a seafood restaurant owner.

 

The restaurant owner had bought 90,000 baht in won that was offered cheap. When they realized that the money was fake they went to police who set up the sting.

 

Forty three million won is worth about 1.6 million baht.

 

Those arrested were two Thai woman and four men with ages ranging from 36 to 60.

 

Source: Sanook

 

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[Henrik Andersen]

52 minutes ago, webfact said:

The restaurant owner had bought 90,000 baht in won that was offered cheap

Hello smart man 

If something to good to be true 

It is not true 

Why will anyone sell money cheap can just go exchange box

 

[Darcula]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The restaurant owner had bought 90,000 baht in won that was offered cheap.

I'm guessing that the order to the Chongjidaemun Organic Vegetables & Battery Acid Cooperative can be filed under "cancelled".

[johng]

North Korean...?

I could understand South Korean notes ..... how many North Koreans holiday in Pattaya ?

[Justgrazing]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

The restaurant owner had bought 90,000 baht in won that was offered cheap. When they realized that the money was fake they went to police

One of the notes bought by restaurant owner ..

[anon789561]

i have to say i giggled when i read that headline, surely there's better currencies to be forging than n korea.

what's next lao kip and monopoly cash

[SinCityGr8One]

Perhaps, just perhaps the buyer of such notes thought it be useful as a replacement for toilet paper or it would make for an interesting wallpaper.  I do believe the perpetrators that counterfeited North Korean notes should be held for a 72 hour mental evaluation before going to a holding cell. This would make for a good plot of Dumb and Dumber 2.0.

[Vacuum]

Why would anyone  buy North Korean won? Can't imaging the Thai banks would exchange them to baht.