International Market Flooded with ’fake Liberian Stamps’

Liberia’s Postal Affairs Minister Jeremiah Solunteh has disclosed that an Israeli company has printed and flooded the international market with ‘Fake Liberian stamps’.

Minister Solunteh told a press conference Wednesday that his ministry had also discovered that the illegal operation of the Israeli company began in 2005, and that a website was being used for such dubious purposes.

Solunteh, who is also Postmaster General of Liberia, said three business institutions, two of which are based in the United States and another in the United Kingdom, were part of the illegal operation.

He said with the help of the United States Postal Service (USPIS), it had been discovered that the unscrupulous and dubious business institutions had accumulated a bank balance of US$115,000.

“The illegal operation of these unscrupulous persons who are posting the name Liberia on their stamps, is disturbing for the government,” Solunteh said, adding that the pictures posted on the postal stamps are ’disturbing’, especially for Liberian women.

Liberia’s Postmaster General said he has written to the Universal Postal Union (UPU), other postal bodies and the Inter-Governmental Philatelic Corporation (IGPC), a legal body responsible for printing Liberia’s postal stamps, expressing concern and disdain about this development.

Source African Press Agency

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