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.
I am of the opinion that all of our US currency is fake these days. Backed by nothing. Printed at will. Value eroding rapidly.
Send it to Ukraine and tell them we’re out.
Ones? They’re shipping ones? Who has time to count all that?
At this point some could argue all US Dollars are fake
Wooooh scary ... a whole 100 million? The US government counterfeits that much every 100 days. They have counterfeited 350,000 times that amount.
The question now is why undocumented quantitative easing is even a crime?
Those newcomers, just doing jobs that Americans won’t do
... Like printing one dollar bills!
That money was probably ordered by the US Treasury since our presses couldn’t keep up.
Why would you counterfeit one dollar bills?
Where does it say anything about ones? Anyway, 100 million one-dollar bills would weigh around 110 tons, which would make four really, really big pallets. A million $100 bills would make four 550-pound pallets, much more reasonable.
LOL - Dr. Evil I know would be impressed!
I guess it’s because no one thinks to test $1.
Make them with polymer like a lot of other countries , I suppose it’s harder to counterfeit ,LOL
From the photo in post #2, they appear to be notes with a $100 front and $1 reverse. If that’s what they are, then most anybody should figure out that they are fake.
Blow up the pic in post #2. 100 million ones. Gonna tick off the Wawa checkout babe.
Good idea.
Is there a crate of counterfeit nickels next to it?
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