KWAZULU-NATAL. – The Durban metropolitan police arrested a Ugandan citizen on Friday after approximately R1.6 million in counterfeit money was found during a raid on a luxury apartment in Umhlanga Ridge.
The Durban metropolitan police's tactical support unit carried out the operation together with the Hawks and the anti-drug crime unit based in Port Shepstone following information about suspicious activity at the apartment.
According to the metropolitan police, the raid also revealed that the apartment was allegedly being used as a brothel. The suspect is also linked to a so-called Black Dollar scheme in which counterfeit money is used. The police's local criminal record centre collected fingerprints and DNA samples from safes at the scene.
In addition to the counterfeit cash, an iPhone 16, a safe and two passports with expired visas were seized. The man is being held at the Durban North police station and faces charges related to money counterfeiting, contravention of the South African Reserve Bank Act, operating a brothel and illegal immigration. He is expected to appear in the Durban magistrate's court on Monday.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
