CHAIYAPHUM: Shop owners in Ban Khwao district have complained to police after discovering they were being paid for goods with fake 1,000 baht notes.
Daoruang Khongnok, 46, who owns the Naron mini-mart at Moo 5 village in tambon Wang Kum, said that about 2pm on Tuesday a procession going to a temple for an ordination ceremony past by her shop. Many people stopped to buy things. Business was good.
That evening she went to a wholesaler to buy goods to restock. After she returned to the shop, the wholesaler called and said there were three counterfeit 1,000-baht notes among the money she had paid for the goods.
She went back to the wholesaler and saw that the three banknotes all had the same serial number – 3G7003970.
Back at her shop again, Ms Daoruang found another fake 1,000 baht note.
She later learned that three other fake 1,000-baht notes had also been passed at two other shops.
They filed a police complaint.
Pol Col Anupap Phiew-on, the Ban Khwao police chief, said seven fake 1,000 baht notes with the same serial number were found at the village. Police were examining security camera recordings to find out who spent the notes.