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Men imprisoned over fake money

Two men were sentenced to 10 years, and 10 years and six months respectively, and each fined 100,000 yuan ($14,500) in Xi'an on May 2 for producing and attempting to distribute fake bank notes. In their attempts to send the counterfeit bank notes to another suspect in July, they pretended they were sending mobile phone sim cards. A courier, surnamed Yang, sought police help when he suspected the contents of the packages were not sim cards and the men refused to show him their identity cards. Police later seized a large amount of fake bank notes and related equipment used to produce them at a house rented by the men.