Record bust in Cambodia signals Thai dollar counterfeiting boom


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  • Monday, 13 Oct 2014

Police and court officials examine notes from a seized haul of $7.16 million in counterfeit hundred-dollar bills, in Battambang September 30, 2014. REUTERS/Andrew RC Marshall

BATTAMBANG Cambodia (Reuters) - Brigadier General Sar Theth is the police chief of Battambang, a languid riverside town in western Cambodia. You could also call him the seven million dollar man.

On Sept. 19, Sar Theth's officers tracked three Thai men in a pick-up 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.

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