RAS AL KHAIMAH // A man and woman have been arrested after being found in possession of US$20 million in counterfeit bills.
Col Salem Al Zaabi, chief of Al Mamoura police station, said police received a tip-off from a member of the public who saw the suspects, in a cafe, with a large amount of one-dollar bills.
A team of officers who arrested the woman, 21, and young man, 19, found US$10m in counterfeit notes in their possession.
During interrogation the duo said they had been working with another man, the woman’s father, who had since left the country.
The suspects’ home in Ajman was searched and another US$10m in fake bills was retrieved.
Col Al Zaabi thanked Ajman Police for their cooperation.
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Zakat: an Arabic word meaning ‘to cleanse’ or ‘purification’.
Nisab: the minimum amount that a Muslim must have before being obliged to pay zakat. Traditionally, the nisab threshold was 87.48 grams of gold, or 612.36 grams of silver. The monetary value of the nisab therefore varies by current prices and currencies.
Zakat Al Mal: the ‘cleansing’ of wealth, as one of the five pillars of Islam; a spiritual duty for all Muslims meeting the ‘nisab’ wealth criteria in a lunar year, to pay 2.5 per cent of their wealth in alms to the deserving and needy.
Zakat Al Fitr: a donation to charity given during Ramadan, before Eid Al Fitr, in the form of food. Every adult Muslim who possesses food in excess of the needs of themselves and their family must pay two qadahs (an old measure just over 2 kilograms) of flour, wheat, barley or rice from each person in a household, as a minimum.
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