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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8507

18 July 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/euro/europol
EUR 16 million in forged bank notes discovered since launch - twelve illegal print shops for counterfeit notes raided in 2003

Brussels, 17/07/2003 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday Europol announced that 309,577 counterfeit Euro notes had been detected to a total value of EUR 16 million. the European Police Bureau, nevertheless, provided assurances that, "the counterfeit phenomenon is not to be overestimated, as the ratio of counterfeit notes found in circulation to approximately 8 billion genuine banknotes in circulation is extremely small". During the first six months of 2003, twelve large print shops producing...

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