Dubai driver ‘caught trying to exchange fake US dollars’

The Pakistani said he got the two $100 bills from an African man and that he did not know they were fake.

DUBAI // A Pakistani driver was caught trying to exchange fake US currency, a court heard on Wednesday.

However, M J, 35, told prosecutors that he did not know that the two $100 notes were counterfeit and that he was given them by an African man after helping him with moving some goods.

Policeman A A said a money exchange centre alerted officers to the man, who was trying to exchange the notes into dirhams.

“The clerk suspected that the dollars were fake. He checked them using a machine and found out they were so he then told M J to sit down and wait for a while and then called the police,” said the 36-year-old officer.

The next hearing at Dubai Criminal Court is on July 10.