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Three nabbed printing counterfeit currency

Kandy - A team of police personnel of the Central Range Vice Squad, Kandy in a dawn raid yesterday took into custody three persons allegedly engaged in printing countefeit currency notes of the Rs. 500 denomination in an upstair-room of a Vihara in Batagalla near Pujapitiya about seven miles off Kandy.

The police team recovered dud currency notes to the tune of Rs. 60,000, a set of computers valued at over Rs. 125,000 and paper used to print the currency notes.

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