Damascus-Sana
The Criminal Security Administration in Damascus arrested persons illegally transferring money and confiscated more than sixty million Syrian pounds.
The Ministry built that, by investigating the arrested person, they confessed to practicing the profession of transferring money in conjunction with other people through their communication with a person residing outside Syria who provides them with the names and phone numbers of the recipients of the remittances, and the two men receive a sum of money for each transfer they deliver.
The Ministry pointed out that, through research and follow-up, two other people were also arrested, and with their investigation they confessed to having practiced the profession of transferring funds without a license in association with the two persons mentioned above in exchange for material benefit. The total amount of money confiscated from those arrested was sixty two million and fifty thousand Syrian pounds.
The Ministry indicated that the confiscated amounts were handed over to the Central Bank of Syria in due form, and the necessary legal measures were taken against the arrested people, and they will be brought to the competent judiciary, and the search is still ongoing for those who hide.