SELLERS OF COUNTERFEIT BANKNOTES APPREHENDED IN MOSCOW

ITAR-TASS News Agency
September 10, 2006 Sunday 04:34 PM EST

A criminal group has been detained in Moscow when trying to sell about
500,000 counterfeit rubles, a source at the city police department’s
organized crime agency told Itar-Tass on Sunday.

Plain-clothes cops got in touch with the criminals in the Moscow
region, pretending that they wanted to buy counterfeit banknotes.

"The meeting was planned on Dmitrovskoye highway, and the
intermediary – a graduate of a Moscow prestigious college – was caught
red-handed. Soon two of his accomplices, natives of Armenia and North
Ossetia and Moscow college students, were apprehended. The detained
men age 20-25 years," the source.

The young men were selling counterfeit banknotes, which were made on
a laser printer with watermarks. "Yet the banknotes were lacking the
metallic stripe. The scoundrels were asking for 450 rubles per each
counterfeit banknote," the source said.

A criminal case was opened. Police think that the detained men were
simply intermediaries and did not counterfeit the banknotes themselves.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress