{"id":159127,"date":"2024-12-20T11:39:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T11:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2024\/12\/20\/255733\/"},"modified":"2025-01-02T12:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T12:17:58","slug":"two-gyumri-residents-detained-for-using-counterfeit-money-one-posed-as-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2024\/12\/20\/159127\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Gyumri residents detained for using counterfeit money, one posed as woman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, December 20. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>Gyumri police have detained two local residents who attempted to pay for a taxi ride with counterfeit bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the department&#8217;s website, a 20-year-old woman and an 18-year-old man were caught red-handed on December 17 when they tried to pay for a purchase at a kiosk with a counterfeit 5,000 dram banknote. They have already confessed to the crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was also reported that, at the time of the arrest, the young man was dressed in a woman&#8217;s dress and wearing a wig. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The activities of the criminal group came to light on November 9. A taxi driver filed a report after the scammers tried to pay him with a counterfeit bill. Suspecting the money was fake, the driver demanded real currency. The scammers then fled, leaving behind a bag containing counterfeit banknotes of 10,000 and 2,000 drams. (Note: $1 = 394.91 drams).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gyumri police have detained two local residents who attempted to pay for a taxi ride with counterfeit bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-159127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-banks-en-en","7":"category-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}