Thailand seen as growing source of counterfeit dollars in Southeast Asia
He may be just the police chief of Battambang, a languid riverside town in western Cambodia, but, recently, people have taken to calling Brig Gen Sar Theth the $7 million man. On Sept. 19, Brig Gen Theth’s officers tracked three Thai men in a pickup truck as it passed through a remote border checkpoint from Thailand. When the truck stopped in the Cambodian district of Phnom Proek, the police pounced. Inside, said Brig Gen Theth, they found three cardboard boxes packed with $7.16 million in counterfeit hundred-dollar bills, the largest seizure of fake US notes in Southeast Asia in about a decade, and the biggest-ever in Cambodia. …
Prak Chan Thul, Andrew R.C. Marshall and Amy Sawitta Lefevre
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/crime/437384/record-bust-in-cambodia-highlights-boom-in-us-dollar-counterfeiting-in-thailand
