6 arrested over bogus 10,000-yen banknotes used in Yokohama.YOKOHAMA Yokohama (yō'kōhä`mä), city (1990 pop. 3,220,331), capital of Kanagawa prefecture, SE Honshu, Japan, on the western shore of Tokyo Bay. , Oct. 24 Kyodo Police announced Tuesday Tuesday: see week. they have arrested six Chinese nationals and are searching for another in connection with five bogus bo·gus adj. Counterfeit or fake; not genuine: bogus money; bogus tasks. [From obsolete bogus, a device for making counterfeit money. 10,000-yen banknotes used in Yokohama in September. Arrested were Lin Kongbin, 25, Wen Jinlian, 29, her brother-in-law BROTHER-IN-LAW, domestic relat. The brother of a wife, or the husband of a sister. There is no relationship, in the former case, between the husband and the brother-in-law, nor in the latter, between the brother and the husband of the sister; there is only affinity between them. Yang yang (yang) [Chinese] in Chinese philosophy, the active, positive, masculine principle that is complementary to yin; see yin, under principle. Jingguang, 46, Lin Xiang, 34, his wife He Liying, 24 and Yang Xiumei, 35, the police said, adding they are searching for an unnamed man who sold the younger Lin the bogus notes, which all have the number NF292682E. The police said Lin Kongbin, Yang Xiumei and the Chinese man at large paid two taxi fares using the bogus 10,000 notes on Sept. 11. Wen and Yang Jingguang were also suspected of doing likewise that same day, and Lin Xiang and He allegedly used two of the notes in different shops the following day, the police said. Lin Kongbin was quoted as saying he bought 50 bogus 10,000-yen notes from the Chinese man for 5,000 yen each. |
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