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Feb 10, 2010
Duo jailed for dud $10k notes
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TWO Indonesians were each jailed for nine years on Wednesday for using and possessing fake $10,000 currency notes. Akhmad Zamroni, 41, a free-lance consultant, and Jerry Ribelard Bollu Eoh, 53, unemployed, pleaded guilty to using as genuine a counterfeit $10,000 at the Mustafa Centre in exchange for smaller denomination on Oct 27 last year. They also admitted to having 60 pieces of fake $10,000 currency notes, intending to use them as genuine, the same day.
The court heard that both men conspired with others in Indonesia to exchange fake $10,000 notes in Singapore for other currency, and share the proceeds. Akhmad was given a total of 91 pieces of counterfeit notes by one Bayu in Indonesia and tasked to bring them over and have them exchanged. Jerry was assigned to follow him to Singapore and assist to carry out the exchange. But the moneychanger at Mustafa suspected the note to be a fake and reported to his supevisor. The police were called.
Feb 10, 2010
Duo jailed for dud $10k notes
<!-- by line --> By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
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TWO Indonesians were each jailed for nine years on Wednesday for using and possessing fake $10,000 currency notes. Akhmad Zamroni, 41, a free-lance consultant, and Jerry Ribelard Bollu Eoh, 53, unemployed, pleaded guilty to using as genuine a counterfeit $10,000 at the Mustafa Centre in exchange for smaller denomination on Oct 27 last year. They also admitted to having 60 pieces of fake $10,000 currency notes, intending to use them as genuine, the same day.
The court heard that both men conspired with others in Indonesia to exchange fake $10,000 notes in Singapore for other currency, and share the proceeds. Akhmad was given a total of 91 pieces of counterfeit notes by one Bayu in Indonesia and tasked to bring them over and have them exchanged. Jerry was assigned to follow him to Singapore and assist to carry out the exchange. But the moneychanger at Mustafa suspected the note to be a fake and reported to his supevisor. The police were called.
