Pacific / Vanuatu

Man found guilty of distributing counterfeit bank notes in Vanuatu

10:34 am on 5 February 2020

A Chinese national has been found guilty of distributing counterfeit bank notes in Vanuatu.

Vanuatu vatu Photo: ppart/123RF

The man is an employee of the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, which is currently building several government infrastructure projects.

The man used a counterfeit 10,000 vatu ($US85) note to buy an external hard drive in November 2018.

He was arrested when he later tried to use a fake 5000 vatu note at the same store.