Damascus-Sana
The Ministry of Interior announced today that the Criminal Security Department has seized a commercial company in Damascus that deals in a currency other than the Syrian pound by selling cellular devices and their requirements based on foreign exchange rates that are traded on the pages of social networking sites, within the framework of the efforts exerted by the police units to follow up on non-lira dealers and pursue Manipulators at their exchange rate.
In a statement, SANA received a copy of it, the Ministry pointed out that, in coordination with the judicial police of the Central Bank of Syria, the headquarters of the aforementioned company were investigated, and the Criminal Security Department found in it a set of documents and bills that you feel doing business and dealing in foreign currencies, and a laptop computer and a camera recording device were also made. And a financial amount of four hundred and six thousand and one hundred Syrian pounds.
According to the ministry’s statement, all employees of the company confirmed that they sell cellular devices and their requirements based on what is published by social networking sites that circulate daily exchange rates according to black market prices after the manager of the company created a group of his employees on the social communication program to see those prices and they received Financial transfers The price of goods sold by the company ranges between five hundred and one million Syrian pounds, pointing out that the company manager is hidden from view.
The statement indicated that the sums have been handed over to the Central Bank of Syria in due form and the search is still ongoing for the director of the company to take the necessary legal measures against him.