Police arrest fake money sellers

BOGOR: Four men arrested here last Saturday for allegedly selling counterfeit money remain under the police custody, chief of Bogor Police Precinct's detective unit Adj. Comr. Yayan said on Sunday.

The suspects -- Imam Budiono, 48, Mardi, 53, Mufti, 50, and Suyono, 42 -- were raided while waiting for a customer inside a blue Kijang van near Hero's supermarket on Jl. Padjadjaran, he said.

The police seized 10 Rp 50,000 bank notes and 2,990 sheets of paper for counterfeit money from the suspects, who all come from Central Java province, he said.

Suyono admitted to police interrogators that they planned to sell the money. They claimed they did so after being inspired by a crime story on a local TV channel, Yayan said.--Antara