Damascus-SANA
The Ministry of Interior announced that the Criminal Security Branch in Tartous had arrested a person who was in possession of 20 fake gold ounces and was trying to sell them to a jewelry store in Tartous.
The ministry indicated in a statement that SANA received a copy of it, that within the framework of the tireless efforts made by the police units to preserve the national economy and to prosecute people who try to tamper with it, and after receiving information to the Criminal Security Branch in Tartous about a person trying to sell twenty fake gold ounces in a store The goldsmiths, and when the owner of the jewelry store asked this person to show his identity card, he ignored him and fled to an unknown destination.
The statement indicated that through monitoring and investigation, the Criminal Security Branch in Tartous was able to identify the suspect and arrested him, and it turned out that he was called / H.
A/ During his interrogation, he confessed that he had tried to sell twenty counterfeit gold ounces to a goldsmith’s shop and obtained it from a hidden person known to him.
The counterfeit gold ounces were confiscated and the search is still going on for his missing partner, and the arrested will be brought to the competent judiciary.
