Brussels, 12/01/2009 (Agence Europe) - In the second half of 2008, total of 354,000 counterfeit euro banknotes were withdrawn from circulation. This is an increase of around 13% on the quantity recovered in the previous six months. This information was published by the European Central Bank (ECB) on Monday 12 January. The Bank says that, since the number of genuine euro banknotes in circulation is also increasing (averaging over 12 billion during the second half of 2008), “the scale of...