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
