CHON BURI: An Iranian guy has actually been detained and charged with exchanging a phony 500-euro banknote for Thai baht, Pol Lt Col Piyapong Ensan, a Pattaya traveler authorities detective, stated on Sunday.
The arrest was made on Sunday after Saichon Poonko, 40, a staff member of a cash exchange business in tambon Nong Prue, Bang Lamung district, submitted a problem with Pattaya authorities that on the night of June 7 an Iranian guy concerned her outlet with a 500-euro note and exchanged it for 17,540 baht.
Mrs Saichon stated she later on examined the banknote and discovered it to be phony.
With assistance from the video from monitoring cams in the location, the Iranian guy was detained on Sunday early morning. He was recognized as Ali Ismaeli Hossanabadi, 39.
He was charged with deliberately utilizing a phony note. The Iranian rejected the charge, stating that he got the banknote from running a service in his house nation.
