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</td></tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="3" class="bodytext_10pt"> <!-- CONTENT : start --> KUALA LUMPUR: Four years ago, he said he would donate RM1 billion to build a hospital to treat cancer, but this did not play out. The Lebanese man is in the news again this week. He was found carrying US$66.2 million (RM216 million) in fake currency. The self-professed billionaire was detained at a four-star hotel in Bukit Bintang after a hotel employee lodged a police report on Sunday. City Commercial Crime Investigation Department chief Assistant Commissioner Izany Abdul Ghany said a hotel cleaner claimed the man gave her a tip of US$500 using a forged note.
"She received the tip after the man checked into the hotel a few days earlier, but when the cleaner tried to convert it into ringgit, she was shocked when told by a moneychanger that it was fake," he said yesterday. Worried that the hotel guest may have been a criminal, she complained to her supervisor who later lodged a police report at the Dang Wangi police headquarters here. Izany said police then mounted a raid on the room where the guest was staying and found a black bag containing the counterfeit notes.
"We found 60 US$1 million notes, 60 US$100,000 notes and 40 US$500 notes in the black bag and immediately arrested the guest." He said one could easily tell the notes were fake as the print quality was similar to that from an ordinary printer. "Checks later revealed that the US government had never issued US$1 million or US$100,000 notes. "They had issued US$500 notes in 1934, but it was later discontinued. "Those who still have it can change it with the US Treasury but can only do it in the US."
Izany said the guest did not resist arrest and later identified himself. "He claimed he had checked into the hotel as he was too tired to return to his home in Tropicana Condominium in Jalan Klang Lama after attending his cheating trial a few day earlier." He said the court case was for a 2005 offence for failing to pay the supplier of the equipment for his office.
-New Straits Times
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</td></tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="3" class="bodytext_10pt"> <!-- CONTENT : start --> KUALA LUMPUR: Four years ago, he said he would donate RM1 billion to build a hospital to treat cancer, but this did not play out. The Lebanese man is in the news again this week. He was found carrying US$66.2 million (RM216 million) in fake currency. The self-professed billionaire was detained at a four-star hotel in Bukit Bintang after a hotel employee lodged a police report on Sunday. City Commercial Crime Investigation Department chief Assistant Commissioner Izany Abdul Ghany said a hotel cleaner claimed the man gave her a tip of US$500 using a forged note.
"She received the tip after the man checked into the hotel a few days earlier, but when the cleaner tried to convert it into ringgit, she was shocked when told by a moneychanger that it was fake," he said yesterday. Worried that the hotel guest may have been a criminal, she complained to her supervisor who later lodged a police report at the Dang Wangi police headquarters here. Izany said police then mounted a raid on the room where the guest was staying and found a black bag containing the counterfeit notes.
"We found 60 US$1 million notes, 60 US$100,000 notes and 40 US$500 notes in the black bag and immediately arrested the guest." He said one could easily tell the notes were fake as the print quality was similar to that from an ordinary printer. "Checks later revealed that the US government had never issued US$1 million or US$100,000 notes. "They had issued US$500 notes in 1934, but it was later discontinued. "Those who still have it can change it with the US Treasury but can only do it in the US."
Izany said the guest did not resist arrest and later identified himself. "He claimed he had checked into the hotel as he was too tired to return to his home in Tropicana Condominium in Jalan Klang Lama after attending his cheating trial a few day earlier." He said the court case was for a 2005 offence for failing to pay the supplier of the equipment for his office.
-New Straits Times
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