PARIS, July 17 — European police have dismantled a counterfeit money printing gang with links to a mafia clan, arresting 44 people, including a grandson of French acting icon Catherine Deneuve. Igor Divetain was one of three suspects arrested in France, a source close to the case said. Forty...
According to a police prosecutor in Benevento, near the southern Italian city of Naples, the enquiry into the fake cash began in 20017 after numerous counterfeit €50 notes were found circulating in the region. — Reuters pic
PARIS, July 17 — European police have dismantled a counterfeit money printing gang with links to a mafia clan, arresting 44 people, including a grandson of French acting icon Catherine Deneuve.Forty suspects were also arrested in Italy, and one in Belgium in the culmination of a years-long investigation coordinated by policing agency Europol, according to France’s OCRFM, the branch of the police force dealing with counterfeiting.
They are suspected of having produced counterfeit money, mainly €50 notes, with a face value of some €10 million. “For several years now, 90 per cent of high-quality counterfeit currency has come from Italy,” Eric Bertrand of the OCRFM told AFP.According to a police prosecutor in Benevento, near the southern Italian city of Naples, the enquiry into the fake cash began in 20017 after numerous counterfeit €50 notes were found circulating in the region.
The criminal outfit produced “an excellent quality using very sophisticated offset printing”, with the end product convincing to touch as well as sight, the Italian prosecutor’s office said. — AFP
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