KUALA LUMPUR: Three foreign men have been detained in connection with a syndicate forging money.
Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) director Comm Datuk Seri Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf said the suspects, from Sierra Leone, were detained in an operation in Kuala Lumpur on Oct 2.
"We seized various items including four pieces of US$100 note, a silver box, four mobile phones, a passport and two cars.
"They have been remanded until Oct 21," he told a press conference at the CCID headquarters on Thursday (Oct 17).
All three suspects had entered Malaysia as students of a private college in Selangor, he said.
"Two of them entered the country in 2022 while another this year.
"We believe they bought forged notes via TikTok. They paid RM6.97 for every 10,000 pieces of fake notes before selling it to Malaysian customers for RM1,000 for the same number of notes.
"We believe the supplier of fake notes was from China," he said.
