Associated Press: Cameroon footballer jailed in Myanmar for forgery

8 March 2010, 12:03 pm

Yangon, Myanmar — A Cameroon football player who sought refuge at the French Embassy in Myanmar’s main city has been sentenced to nine years in prison on charges of forging U.S. currency, a newspaper said Monday.A court in Yangon also sentenced another Cameroon man to seven years last Thursday, also on charges of counterfeiting U.S. [...]... Read More »

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