Mzuzu Magistrate’s Court has sentenced Jackson Longwe, 25, to eight years imprisonment and fined him K3 million for possessing counterfeit bank notes.
Mzuzu Police Station spokesperson Edith Kachitsa said, on April 18 this year, Longwe deposited K100 000 fake currency in denomination of K2 0000 bank notes to two Airtel Money agents.
The post of an 8 years jail for man who deposited fake K2 000 notes on Airtel Money first appeared in a subsequent edition of our publication earlier in May this year.
Several tricksters have been making bogus calls or sending text messages relating either Airtel or TNM subscribers to various promotional competitions whose companies have categorically denied having run any competition.