Africa-Press – Angola. The Supreme Court (TS), on Wednesday (27), read the verdict of the trial of the retired deputy commissioner of the National Police, Domingos Francisco, and António Kahala Pinto and Januário Francisco, accused of committing the crime of passing off and placing counterfeit currency in circulation on the market.
According to a press release the crime in question is punishable by a penalty of up to one year in prison or a fine of 120 days, except in the case of manufacturing metallic currency with a value equal to or greater than that of the legitimate.
In these cases, the penalty is a fine of up to 90 days, in accordance with paragraph 3 of article 256 of the Angolan Penal Code, according to the same note.
The three defendants are accused of the crimes of passing, placing and circulating counterfeit currency on the market and the trial is presided over by the venerable judge advisor Daniel Modesto.
According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP), the defendants forged the amount of 19,900 USD (Nineteen thousand and nine hundred US dollars) and were caught with a firearm, its charger and 16 rounds of ammunition, inside the deputy commissioner’s vehicle.
According to the MP, the expertise concluded that the monetary notes had no identifying value, were not authentic, had a simulated watermark and a simulated security thread, as well as had no microtests, nor similarities with the real one, and were, therefore, its degree of falsity of 100 percent.
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