Israel promotes false currencies, drugs in Jordan
Jordan-Israel, Local, 4/6/2002

The Jordanian weekly al-Itijah has unveiled that Israeli sides have promoted false foreign currencies use in the Jordanian market and smuggling drugs and very harmfull kind of Israeli tobacco.

The paper said, according to well-informed sources that the Jordanian specialized sides recently confiscated Israelis promoting for false foreign currencies including the US and European currencies in the Jordanian market.

The sources said that several persons who dealt with those Israelis, doubted the authenticity of these currencies and informed, as a result, sides concerned which monitored the situation until the Israelis were arrested having amounts of these currencies and then they were brought to judicial sides concerned.

Other Jordanian sources said that also recently a gang specialized in smuggling drugs from Israel to Jordan via Eilat was arrested. The paper which was issued today said that the Jordanian official sides are currently searching for a dangerous kind of smuggled Israeli tobacco to Jordan stated to have materials that cause diseases like cancer. Large amounts of such types of Tobacco were confiscated.

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