Most wanted foreign currency trafficker detained: DMI

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15-05-2024, 13:53

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INA- Baghdad

The biggest foreign currency smuggler in Nineveh was arrested, according to a statement released on Wednesday by the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI).

In a statement obtained by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), the directorate stated that "military intelligence detachments were able to raid the house of a trader and smuggler of foreign currency on the left side of the city of Mosul and arrest him after obtaining official approvals and issuing a judicial order against him in accordance with the provisions of Article (51) of the Central Bank of Iraq Law. This was done "in a qualitative operation based on accurate intelligence information."

DMI noted that "the accused was referred to the competent authority after completing the necessary procedures against him.”