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Conflict Incident Report

ISF arrests two for distributing counterfeit money

Date of incident: 
December 12, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Lebanese Civilians

The Internal Security Forces has arrested two men for allegedly distributing counterfeit banknotes in Batroun.

The ISF Information Branch had opened investigations after a shop owner in Batroun accused someone of buying items with fake notes, accompanied by another man in a Mercedes.

The agency arrested the suspect, identified as Lebanese national K.Y., born in 1980, and seized a joint from his possession.

Primary category: 
Arrest/Detention
Secondary Category: 
Illicit Trade/Trafficking/Smuggling
Classification of conflict (primary): 
Individual acts of violence
Violent incidents which do not have a specific or a known political agenda but are caused by the general proliferation of weapons, of trained and untrained soldiers or militants, by the general inefficiency of the Justice system, and past-traditions and histories of violence within society.