China News Service, July 17th, according to the European Union quoted the European Union News Agency, the local prosecutor's office in Campania, Italy, informed the media on July 16, local time that the police in the city of Benevento had recently cracked a case. Extra large counterfeit money case. The police arrested 44 suspects in the operation and seized assets worth more than 8 million euros of the persons involved.
According to reports, Konzo, the deputy prosecutor responsible for investigating the case, said this was the largest case of counterfeit money cracked in the past 10 years. The criminal gang used the city of Benevento as a base for making counterfeit banknotes and then sold them through special channels, resulting in a large amount of counterfeit currency entering the circulation market.
Conzo said that the counterfeit money produced by the criminal gang is different from the counterfeit money seized in the past. The criminal gang specially prints banknotes of 50 euros and 100 euros. Its simulation level is difficult to identify not only by the feel and the naked eye, but also by the money detector. Authenticity. The counterfeit currency can only be screened by financial institutions,
According to Conzo, the police started investigating the case in 2017. In an accidental opportunity, the police took out a case of selling counterfeit banknotes through a blackmail suspect. Afterwards, the police tracked down the counterfeit banknote transaction chain and finally found a counterfeit banknote printing factory.
Prosecutor Poly Castro also said that in addition to being suspected of manufacturing and selling counterfeit banknotes, the 44 suspects arrested were also involved in a series of transnational criminal activities such as international drug transactions. At present, the police are conducting in-depth investigations on the relevant cases, and are making every effort to recover counterfeit banknotes that have entered circulation. (Lin Zhuqing)