Afande Isoke Led Operation Nets Fraudster With 2 Million Fake US Dollars
By Angel Lubowa
NTEBBE
THE head of State House Anti corruption unit(SH_ACU) Brig Gen Henry Isoke himself, together with police and other security agencies caused excitement in Entebbe when he commanded an operation leading to arrests and recovery of fake US Dollars.
This was on Friday, December 27,2024 when security, and an LC leader, searched a garage in Entebbe Municipality, where a consignment, suspected to have been smuggled from Entebbe International Airport, was being hidden.
The chase is reportedly to have started In May 2024 and later in October when SH-ACU received a tip-off on a consignment that was suspiciously being held at the Airport.
Since then, SH-ACU, together with other security agencies, have monitored the consignment closely.
The suspected criminals are said to have been smooth operators who waitged this long until 17th December when the consignment was smuggled out of the Airport quietly.
However. SH-ACU investigation was on the ready and a team was tipped off and traced the same in a motor vehicle garage in Entebbe.
The actual new chase ensued and during the Friday search by the joint Investigation team about 40 large and medium metallic boxes containing suspected counterfeit US dollars, amounting to $2m were recovered.
Security discovered that to hoodwink their would-be targets, the fraudsters added soil in the boxes to exaggerate their weight.
Besides the fake currency, the team also recovered several bulky, well-wrapped boxes, falsely appearing to contain goods in transit, yet they had useless items, including empty crates of soda and beer.
During this operation, three suspects were arrested, while efforts to apprehend others are ongoing.
Meanwhile , Brig Gen Henry Isoke, reiterated the Unit’s determination in coordination with other sister agencies to crack down on criminals who target innocent citizens and foreigners to extort from them colossal sums of money through fraudulent and fake transactions.
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