According to Farishta, the visitors demonstrated how they could “convert” blank paper into dollar by using a “special” chemical. “The Nigerian youths put a real US dollar between two blank papers of same size with a coating of some black chemical. After that, they kept it in a refrigerator. On Thursday morning, when the papers were taken out, the two blank papers had the impression of the dollar,” Farishta said. Police, however, said the two blank papers were real dollars, which had been given a coating of some black chemical to misguide the city hotelier. “When the coating was removed, it came back to the real shape,” said a police official investigating the case.

Sensing trouble, Farishta informed the police, which raided the hotel and nabbed the two Nigerians. Farishta said he had come in touch with Johnson through the Net after he placed an advertisement in March inviting investments for his project. Five bundles of paper packed in aluminium foil, chemicals, cuttings of black paper in the size of US dollars, rubber gloves and masks were seized, sources in the police said.

Sources said Johnson and Julius asked Farishta to arrange $50,000 so that they could convert the bundles they were carrying into dollars. They said the bundles of blank papers and chemicals they were carrying were enough to “produce” $250,000. The two men were not carrying any travel documents or passports. They told the police during investigation that the documents had been submitted in the embassy. After registering a case under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code, the accused were produced in court from where they were sent to jail.

Photo Above:- The two Nigerians in custody.