Man on bogus-cash charge sent to jail
PA Auckland A Pakistani office clerk charged with passing forged American dollars with a face value . of $31,641 has been sentenced in the Supreme Court at Auckland to three years jail and finedssooo. ’ Mohammad Misking Khan, also known as Philip Henry Cedillos, aged 21, had pleaded guilty to 41 charges relating to the possession of forged bank notes, uttering forged documents, and attempting to take $17,000 out if the country without the consent of the Reserve Bank. Appearing before Mr
Justice Holland, Khan was sentenced to three years jail on each of the possession and uttering charges, the terms to be current. He was fined $5OOO for breaching the exchangecontrol regulations. At a hearing in the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland in December, Sergeant L. J. Higgins prosecuting, told the court that the accused had exchanged counterfeit American dollars with a face value of $31,641 during three visits to New Zealand in October and November.
Most of the forged currency had been exchanged at trading banks.
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