Here's a follow-up article on that Ugandan counterfeiter who shipped fakes to Pittsburgh. -Editor
An American who has been on trial in Kampala for counterfeiting currency notes worth $180,400 will be deported to the US where he faces
criminal charges, a Ugandan court ordered on Thursday.
US authorities in December 2014 charged Gustafson with leading a multimillion-dollar international counterfeit money operation based in
Uganda. The US attorney’s office for the Western District of Pennsylvania said Gustafson mainly lived in Texas and Colorado when he was in
the US.
Gustafson was arrested on 11 December 2014 in Kampala. Printers and other equipment used to make high-quality fake $20, $50 and $100
bills were also seized.
Authorities said he allegedly made more than $2m in US currency, most of it passed in Uganda, but about $270,000 of which was shipped to
the United States.
The scheme reportedly unraveled when a fake $100 bill passed at a Pittsburgh coffee shop last December was detected by bank employees,
authorities said.
Investigators said they traced that bill to a Pittsburgh man and further investigation determined Gustafson was shipping the bills to
others in Florida, Minnesota, Texas and Washington. They said about $30,000 in counterfeit bills was passed in the Pittsburgh area.
To read the complete article, see:
Uganda to deport US citizen
charged in counterfeit money scheme (www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/03/uganda-deport-american-counterfeit-money-operation)
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
UGANDAN COUNTERFEITS FLOWED THROUGH PITTSBURGH
(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v17n52a30.html)
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