Current News on Counterfeit Banknotes
He was cutting and pasting lottery ticket numbers to match those of the winners.
BADAJOZ, Aug 12. (EUROPA PRESS) -
The Civil Guard arrests a resident of Castuera for collecting counterfeit lottery tickets
The Civil Guard has arrested a resident of the town of Castuera in Pacense, accused of cashing in the towns of Guarroman (Jaen) and Guadix (Granada), the amount of two lottery tickets that he had counterfeited.
According to a press release from the Civil Guard, the events were detected on July 13th in the town of Guarroman (Jaen) when a person handed over to an authorized seller of the local lottery administration, five tenths of a national lottery ticket with the intention of claiming the prizes of 100 euros each.
This individual received the prize money in cash and with other lottery tickets, but later, when the seller went to deliver the tickets at the lottery office, he found out they were fake.
The alleged author of the forgery had cut and pasted the number 8 from other lottery tickets to match the winning number 60822, as well as the serial number.
With the information obtained and description of the alleged perpetrator, it was discovered that this scam had also been committed on previous dates in the town of Guadix, in Granada.
Following the investigations, descriptions, and data provided by the Civil Guard from the posts in the localities where the frauds were committed, the Civil Guard of Castuera located and arrested the alleged perpetrator last Tuesday, who was recognized by his victims, and who is accused of forging an official document and frauds.
It should be noted that this individual has more than 20 arrests for similar crimes in different Spanish provinces, and the proceedings were made available to the Courts of Castuera.
Orihuela, Elche July 2010
National Police and Local Police officers in Orihuela have arrested four people, one of them underage, accused of "placing" counterfeit 100 euro notes in various shops in this town and the municipality of Elche, according to police sources.
In the same operation, 1,400 euros in counterfeit bills were seized, as well as a high-end convertible vehicle, various items allegedly purchased illegally with those bills, and 715 euros in legal tender cash.
The arrested individuals are three French citizens and one of Algerian nationality. They were captured after the employees of a establishment raised the alarm.
National Police and Local Police officers in Orihuela have arrested four people, one of them underage, accused of "placing" counterfeit 100 euro notes in various shops in this town and the municipality of Elche, according to police sources.
In the same operation, 1,400 euros in counterfeit bills were seized, as well as a high-end convertible vehicle, various items allegedly purchased illegally with those bills, and 715 euros in legal tender cash.
The arrested individuals are three French citizens and one of Algerian nationality. They were captured after the employees of a establishment raised the alarm.
National Police officers, together with the Local Police of Orihuela, have arrested a total of four people, one of them a minor, who allegedly made purchases with counterfeit 100 euro bills in various shops in Orihuela and Elche, according to a statement from the Provincial Police Station of Alicante.
The four people now detained, three of them of French nationality and one of Algerian nationality, allegedly dedicated themselves to distributing counterfeit 100 euro bills in commercial establishments in Orihuela and Elche.
The incident occurred when employees of a commercial establishment in Orihuela became suspicious about the authenticity of a 100 euro bill, which a French couple intended to use to pay for a piece of clothing costing 14.95 euros.
For this reason, they alerted the security guards of the center, who detained the aforementioned couple and two other people who were in the vicinity and were allegedly involved with the couple.
Thus, the security guards alerted the police services, who identified them and seized the fake 100 euro bill with which they tried to make the purchase.
Subsequently, the police inspected the high-end vehicle, a BMW, in which the now-detained individuals were traveling, finding inside, hidden in the armrest, another 13 counterfeit 100 euro bills, as well as several bags of clothes from different stores in Orihuela and Elche. Following this incident, the officers located the stores where they had made purchases with counterfeit bills.
The now detained individuals were brought before a judge and imprisonment was decreed for the three adults, while the minor was placed under the jurisdiction of the Alicante Juvenile Prosecutor's Office.
VALENCIA, 19 (EUROPA PRESS)
National Police officers have dismantled an organized group dedicated to counterfeiting fifty euro notes, which they intended to introduce into the economy through small businesses and gas stations.
In the operation, eight people have been arrested, all of them residents in different localities of the Valencian Community, who were also trafficking drugs, the police reported in a statement on Monday.
In total, seven searches have been conducted and a printing press for counterfeiting banknotes as well as an illicit marijuana plantation have been dismantled. The agents have seized nearly 28,000 euros in counterfeit 50-euro notes. Furthermore, a marijuana plantation was found in one of the residences.
At the end of last year, an investigation was initiated after the circulation of counterfeit fifty euro notes was detected in the Valencian Community. The inquiries carried out allowed the officers to identify and arrest those responsible for the creation of the fakes, a group of Spanish citizens residing in various towns in the province of Valencia.
During the search conducted at the residence of the person believed to be the printer of the banknotes, the necessary tools for creating the counterfeits were found. Several banknotes in the process of production and a large amount of ink cartridges used for their printing were located. Among those arrested is also one of the main distributors of the counterfeit currency. At his residence, around 12,000 euros ready for circulation were seized.
Among the criminal activities of the detainees was also the trafficking of narcotics, both cocaine and marijuana. In another one of the searches, the agents found a marijuana plantation with 91 branches of the plant in the drying process, as well as various tools for its cultivation and maintenance.
Seven blank and gas pistols have also been confiscated.
The operation has been carried out jointly by the Investigation Brigade of the Bank of Spain of the General Police Commissariat and the Provincial Judicial Police Brigade of Valencia.
A gang in Son Gotleu falls that was dedicated to the scam of tinted bills to businessmen
Among the detainees were three Nigerian citizens and one Spaniard.
J. Bastida | 02/13/2010
Agents from the UDYCO (Drug and Organized Crime Unit) of the National Police Force proceeded to completely dismantle a significant Nigerian gang dedicated to the scam of tinted bills.
During the framework of the operation, called 'Betún', the police proceeded to arrest four people: Dreams Y.M., a 27-year-old Nigerian, known as 'the cards'; Wilson David A., a 27-year-old Nigerian, known as 'the fred'; Kingsley Y., a 27-year-old Nigerian, and finally Pedro. A.P., 39 years old and of Spanish nationality.
Research
According to police investigations, the Nigerians caught the attention of Mallorcan businessmen, especially from the Santa Ponça and Marratxí area. With the excuse of a fake interest in buying properties, they later tried to scam them using the method of dyed bills.
To lend greater credibility to their story, the criminals posed as UN diplomats, and one of them even claimed to be part of the Ivory Coast government. In this way, the gang members tried to gain the trust of the businessmen and get them to hand over 30,000 euros as an advance to remove a safe from their country filled with dyed banknotes worth two million euros.
During the searches carried out in Palma, a safe, 13 packets of counterfeit 500 euro bills, 3 packets of counterfeit 100 euro bills, a bottle of 'miracle liquid' that supposedly turned paper into bills, and several mobile phones were seized. Yesterday, the judge decided to release the detainees on bail.
Among the detainees were three Nigerian citizens and one Spaniard.
J. Bastida | 02/13/2010
Agents from the UDYCO (Drug and Organized Crime Unit) of the National Police Force proceeded to completely dismantle a significant Nigerian gang dedicated to the scam of tinted bills.
During the framework of the operation, called 'Betún', the police proceeded to arrest four people: Dreams Y.M., a 27-year-old Nigerian, known as 'the cards'; Wilson David A., a 27-year-old Nigerian, known as 'the fred'; Kingsley Y., a 27-year-old Nigerian, and finally Pedro. A.P., 39 years old and of Spanish nationality.
Research
According to police investigations, the Nigerians caught the attention of Mallorcan businessmen, especially from the Santa Ponça and Marratxí area. With the excuse of a fake interest in buying properties, they later tried to scam them using the method of dyed bills.
To lend greater credibility to their story, the criminals posed as UN diplomats, and one of them even claimed to be part of the Ivory Coast government. In this way, the gang members tried to gain the trust of the businessmen and get them to hand over 30,000 euros as an advance to remove a safe from their country filled with dyed banknotes worth two million euros.
During the searches carried out in Palma, a safe, 13 packets of counterfeit 500 euro bills, 3 packets of counterfeit 100 euro bills, a bottle of 'miracle liquid' that supposedly turned paper into bills, and several mobile phones were seized. Yesterday, the judge decided to release the detainees on bail.
A vehicle with drugs and counterfeit bills is stopped in La Jonquera
The Mossos d'Esquadra stopped a vehicle this Sunday in La Jonquera, in which they found 320.70 grams of cocaine and 15.79 grams of heroin, as well as 13 counterfeit 50 euro bills, as reported today by the aforementioned police force.
EUROPE PRESS. 15.06.2010
The events occurred around 7:30 hours at a drug and alcohol checkpoint at kilometer point 773.5 on the N-II highway, when they stopped a car with a driver and a co-driver whom they saw hiding a handbag.
The events occurred around 7:30 hours at a drug and alcohol checkpoint at kilometer point 773.5 on the N-II highway, when they stopped a car with a driver and a co-driver whom they saw hiding a handbag.
They found the drug in the bag and arrested Yacouba F., 30 years old and resident of Franqueses del Vallès (Barcelona), as the alleged perpetrator of a drug trafficking crime and another of counterfeiting money, since he was carrying 29 fifty-euro bills, 13 of which were fake.
The driver tested positive for the blood alcohol level, so the vehicle was immobilized and the consequent administrative complaint was processed.
The detainee, who has no prior record, was brought before the duty court in Figueres on Monday, which ordered his imprisonment.
VALENCIA, 19 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -
28,000 euros seized
The Police dismantle a group in Valencia that counterfeits banknotes
28,000 euros seized
The Police dismantle a group in Valencia that counterfeits banknotes
National Police officers have dismantled an organized group dedicated to counterfeiting fifty euro notes, which they intended to introduce into the economy through small businesses and gas stations.
In the operation, eight people have been arrested, all of them residents in different localities of the Valencian Community, who were also trafficking drugs, the police reported this Monday in a statement.
In total, seven searches have been conducted and a printing press used for counterfeiting banknotes as well as an illicit marijuana plantation have been dismantled. The officers have seized nearly 28,000 counterfeit euros in 50 euro banknotes. Additionally, a marijuana plantation was found in one of the homes.
At the end of last year, an investigation was launched after the circulation of counterfeit fifty-euro bills was detected in the Valencian Community. The inquiries made allowed the officers to identify and arrest those responsible for the production of the counterfeits, a group of Spanish citizens residing in various towns in the province of Valencia.
In the search carried out at the home of the person considered to be the printer of the bills, the necessary tools were found to make the forgeries. They located several bills in the process of production and a large amount of ink cartridges used for printing them. Among the arrested is also one of the main distributors of the counterfeit currency. In his home, around 12,000 euros were seized, ready to be put into circulation.
Among the criminal activities of the detainees was also drug trafficking, both of cocaine and marijuana. In another search, the agents found a marijuana plantation with 91 branches of the plant in the drying process, as well as various tools for its cultivation and maintenance. Seven gas and blank-firing pistols have also been seized.
The operation has been carried out jointly by the Investigation Brigade of the Bank of Spain from the General Police Commissioner's Office and the Provincial Police Brigade of Valencia.
ALICANTE, July 26 (EUROPA PRESS) -
they scammed 300,000 euros in four months
20 arrested in Alicante and Murcia for fraud and counterfeiting banknotes
20 arrested in Alicante and Murcia for fraud and counterfeiting banknotes
The National Police have arrested 20 people in Alicante and Murcia, who were scamming business owners using the 'Wash-Wash' method. In other words, the now arrested individuals used black cardboards that, when mixed with legal tender, took on the properties of authentic bills, according to a statement released on Monday by the Provincial Police Station of the National Police in Alicante.
The investigation began four months ago by the Provincial Brigade of the Judicial Police of Alicante, upon becoming aware of an organized group dedicated to committing fraud using the 'Wash-Wash' or 'Black Cardboard Decolorization' method. The agents estimate that the fraud amounts to a total of 300,000 euros in the last four months.
This method involves attracting the 'client' to whom they show, in a test-demonstration, the way in which black cardboards, mixed with legal tender bills provided by the victim, acquire the qualities of authentic bills, after a laborious chemical process.
BUSINESSMEN WITH "CLEAR ECONOMIC SOLVENCY"
Thus, the scammers targeted their victims, almost always Spanish businessmen with "clear financial solvency", whom they convinced to participate with a significant amount of money with the intention of exchanging these bills with the black cardboard they were going to provide, with the aim of thus obtaining a huge amount of money to be distributed among the parties.
The fraudsters led the business owners to believe that they were dealing with a wealthy individual from a Sub-Saharan country with substantial financial resources, who was a political fugitive in their own country. They even told them that they were the children of a minister from their country and took out the dyed money in a diplomatic suitcase to avoid detection.
In this way, the criminals managed to swindle about 30,000 euros from a citizen of Alicante, with the total damage caused estimated at around 300,000 euros in the last four months.
Likewise, the dismantled group duplicated credit cards, used by tourists in hotels in Nigeria, duplications that they subsequently used fraudulently in establishments in Alicante, Valencia, Murcia, Almería, Lleida, and Seville.
ARRESTS
The police investigation led to the arrest of the two main perpetrators of the gang in the town of Sant Vicent del Raspeig (Alicante) and in Alicante. The now arrested used a high-end vehicle for their movements, a car that had been paid for in cash with money obtained from a scam.
After these two arrests, the National Police arrested two other people, one of them residing in La Algaba (Seville) and the other in Benidorm (Alicante), who intended to carry out a test-demonstration of the tinted bills.
Thus, agents from the Provincial Brigade of the Judicial Police of Alicante and Murcia, as well as members of the Provincial Brigade of Citizen Security of Alicante, arrested several members of the gang in the vicinity of their homes. Specifically, there was one arrest in Sant Vicent del Raspeig, eight in Alicante, and nine in the province of Murcia.
Furthermore, during the police operation, six house searches were carried out, in which various chemical products, several hundred pieces of black colored paper, three laptops, a printer and a modem, as well as different computer equipment, a counterfeit bill detector, thirty mobile phones and numerous documents related to scams and counterfeits were seized.
The now detained individuals are of different nationalities, specifically, ten from Cameroon, three from Nigeria, three from Spain, two from Equatorial Guinea, one from Gambia and one from Ivory Coast, all of them residing in the provinces of Alicante and Murcia.
The detainees, eleven with criminal records, have been brought before the Courts of Instruction in Alicante, Sant Vicent del Raspeig and Murcia. The judges have decreed the imprisonment of the main culprits.
