| Police have detained a courier carrying a large sum of foreign currency to the rebel groups led by Abu al Walid and Shamil Basayev, representative of the regional headquarters for the anti-terrorist campaign in the North Caucasus Col. Ilya Shabalkin said. He said the police had confiscated $180,000 from Madina Atabayeva, born in 1960. $140,000 were counterfeit, and $40,000 were genuine, he said. The police have information that dollars transferred from abroad are being exchanged for counterfeit money in neighboring countries, possibly, Turkey, Azerbaijan or Georgia, Shabalkin said. |