5 charged over fake notes haul; CRIME: Police seize pounds 1m in counterfeit currency probe.Byline: By Patrice John POLICE have charged five men after recovering an estimated pounds 1 million in counterfeit bank notes from addresses in Birmingham. Officers from Harborne police station and the Economic Crime Unit recovered the counterfeit money from addresses in Smethwick, Nechells and Handsworth on Friday and Saturday. The operation resulted in one of the largest seizures of its kind in the Midlands. It was launched following the arrest of two men in Icknield Street Icknield Street (ĭk`nēld), name for a prehistoric road in England, extending SW from the Wash, along the line of the Chiltern Hills and Berkshire Downs, to Salisbury Plain. , Hockley on Friday. Money making chemicals and equipment were also recovered from the addresses by officers. They also found substantial amounts of genuine UK and foreign currency, suspected false credit cards, false identity documentation and a VRN VRN Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar VRN Vehicle Registration Number VRN Verona, Italy - Verona (Airport Code) VRN Value Retail News (magazine) VRN Video-Rich Navigation plate to a sports vehicle. A West Midlands Police West Midlands Police is the Home Office police force responsible for policing the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second largest in the United Kingdom after London's Metropolitan Police [1]. It covers an area with nearly 2. spokesman said today: "Five of the men arrested over the weekend have now been charged with conspiracy to defraud and have been remanded in custody. "One other man who was held has not been charged but has remanded in custody on an unrelated matter. "A woman who was arrested has been released without charge." |
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