Cuban police bust banknote forging ring

Cuba's Technical Investigations Directorate (DTI) said on Sunday that it has busted a network of banknote forgers, operating in the capital city Havana and faking both Cuban and international currency.

A DTI source told Cuban weekly Tribuna de La Havana that a man known as Aramis had been jailed for 10 years for falsifying banknotes in Diezmero, a neighborhood in the Havana municipality of San Miguel del Padron.

He had been helped by three distributors who took a commission for each banknote they managed to get into circulation.

The DTI seized computer equipment, including a printer used for making the fake notes Another 12 people were arrested for transporting fake banknotes in Alamar, a neighborhood in eastern Havana.

Source: Xinhua