Some 36 illegal currency dealers were arrested in Ghana on Tuesday, PANA reported on Wednesday.
It quoted Police Superintendent Kofi Boakye as saying that the crackdown was aimed at helping the government in its efforts to curb the fast depreciation of the cedi, which plunged from 3,500 to the US dollar at the start of the year, to about 6,000:1 this week.
However, economists blame the depreciation on the failure of economic and financial managers to develop a culture of sustainable internalised fiscal discipline, PANA said.
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