Posted on 04/06/2024 10:46:54 AM PDT by libh8er
Police in the northern German port city of Kiel on Friday said they had discovered counterfeit cash worth more than $103 million.
Officials think the haul of low-quality forgeries was part of a wider shipment operation for falsified bills from Turkey, through Germany, to the United States.
How did police find the counterfeit notes?
Investigators tracked the company locations of a suspect after US security authorities tipped off German federal police.
State police in Schleswig-Holstein said they conducted "extensive searches" of an apartment and two company addresses, in both Schleswig-Holstein and neighboring Hamburg.
Officers discovered and seized four pallets containing a total of 75 boxes of counterfeit US dollars.
Investigators say they believe the banknotes came from a wholesaler from Turkey. The trader allegedly used one of the accused's export companies in the Schleswig-Holstein town of Jübek as an interim storage facility for onward transport to the US.
A 42-year-old suspect, who has until now not been in custody due to a lack of evidence, is being investigated over counterfeiting charges. He is the managing director of two export firms and is suspected of having previously exported forged money across the Atlantic.
The only moron I can think of is the jerk in Phoenix who turned his printing machine in to get it cleaned a few years back and forgot to remove the dollar bill printing plates in it. LOL. True story.
It doesn't, zoom in on the picture in post #2. a few 100ds but most are 1.00 buck bills.
For the third time or so, that picture doesn’t open.
It’s very funny. Some of the same folks are involved in a movie called “Gentlemen Broncos,” and “Nacho Libre.”
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Good analogy. Both are nearly worthless paper.
I had a cousin around 2010, who’d gone to the bank to get her monthly ‘walking-around’ money ($300).
Very next stop after the bank was a gas station. Fills up and pays with 2 twenties. Guy checks one....counterfeit. Bank gave it to her. Clerk at station calls local cops...cousin has wait 45 minutes for them to show...some report filled out.
She goes back to the bank to ask WTH, and they denied they’d given her the bill. After that...each time she goes for cash at the bank...she makes them put all the bills through their little machine to prove to her that they are genuine.
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