In the picture: a promoter of counterfeit coins in the hands of security

The General Directorate of Internal Security Forces indicated that the Office for the Fight against Information Crimes and Protection of Intellectual Property of the Judicial Police Unit had information on a person who communicated from cell number: 76- 305627, with a person who posted an advertisement for mobile device sales offers, in a dedicated application. Buy and sell.

After the final price was agreed between them, the caller informed the victim that he would send a silver Mercedes taxi driver, his cell phone number 71-646013, to pick up the mobile device and pay for it in US dollars and Lebanese pounds, for that the victim later found out that the foreign currency was counterfeit.

As a result of intensive monitoring, investigations and extensive investigations, the agents of the aforementioned office were able to learn the identity of: the driver and the user of the aforementioned telephone number.

On 11/25/2020, an office patrol managed to arrest the driver in the city of Bebnin – Akkar, and called him:

METER. SECOND. (Born 1971, Lebanese) nicknamed “Abu Youssef”

With his interrogation, he admitted that he works as a taxi driver aboard a silver Mercedes, and at the request of two Syrian citizens – two search and investigation reports were circulated against him and work is underway to arrest them – he went to the place agreed between them and the victim , received the phone and got up. Giving the seller a sum of money in counterfeit US dollars, as long as he knows it, and another correct amount in Lebanese pounds. He also admitted that he had carried out similar operations on previous dates.

For this reason, and based on the reference of the competent Judicial Power, the General Directorate of the Internal Security Forces circulates his photograph, and asks those who have been victims of similar actions and have known him, to go to the aforementioned office located in the town of Boulevard, Cuartel Presidente Camille Chamoun / Mártir Coronel Joseph Daher – fourth floor or call the number 293293-01, for your information.