Notorious Y’de-based counterfeiter nabbed

He was specialized in fabricating fake windscreen licences, international passports and CFA and foreign banknotes.
By Tanyi Kenneth Musa in Yaounde
Brice Zomo, 44, a fabricator of fake windscreen licences, international passports and CFA and foreign banknotes, has been arrested. He was apprehended by elements of the Centre gendarmerie legion on Sunday, 14 February 2016 in his Odza residence, following a tip-off.
    In his residence which also served as his laboratory, Zomo was found in possession of numerous fake windscreen licences of 15 000 FCFA, 25 000 FCFA and 100 000 FCFA belonging to different countries of the Central African sub-region. In all, they amounted to 160 million FCFA.
    He was equally found with fake international passports and banknotes. The forger had counterfeit CFA and American dollar banknotes worth a total of 1 266 000 FCFA.

    Having been caught red-handed with his fabricating machine and other paraphernalia, Brice Zomo could not deny the fact that he was involved in the illegal activity. He told the gendarmes that he was trained as an engineer with specialization in the printing of security materials. He said he underwent a nine-year training in France after obtaining his baccalauréat in Cameroon.    
    Zomo went on to say that he produced windscreen licences on command and that he had already dispatched lots of them to Bertoua, Douala, Bamenda and other towns in the country. He however failed to reveal the identities of his accomplices, except that of 30-year-old Yacoubou Haoudou who was found with him in the “laboratory”.
    It should be noted that before the arrest, complaints had been awash by the forces of law and order of the circulation of fake windscreen licences in Yaounde and other towns.
    At press time, the two counterfeiters were still at the Centre gendarmerie legion, helping the gendarmes in their investigations.