Kohima, Jul 29 (Agency) The Dimapur Police of Nagaland today arrested one Ugandan National Michael Philip, a 35 years male, for travelling on forged Visa documents. According to a release issued by the PRO of Dimapur Police informed that during the preliminary investigation the individual was also found to be in possession of 4000 Numbers of black paper in the size of foreign currency notes, three bottles of containing suspected chemicals clearly indicating his involvement in black dollar or dollar wash scam, which was corroborated by the additional seizure of instructional manuals of converting the black paper into US dollars and Euro currency notes.
The black dollar scam is basically a hoax where the fraudster attempts to obtain money from the victims through deception that a bundle of bank note sized papers are actually currency notes that had been dyed to avoid detection by the Law Enforcement Agency (LEA) and can be brought back to original dollar bills if treated with a particular chemical. In this regard a case has been registered at East Police Station of Dimapur, it said.