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Foreign Ministry employees arrested for translation fraud

Police on Monday arrested a 45-year-old employee and a 42-year-old appointed translator at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Translation Service on charges of making a false statement, forgery, breach of faith and violation of duty.

The two women are suspected of developing a scheme for providing members of the public with official translations by bypassing the department’s official processes and without issuing legal receipts.

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