Spanish police announced the arrest this Saturday of 14 people in Barcelona, Rome and Naples, suspected of being involved in a vast affair of counterfeit 100 euro notes.
“The organization would have manufactured and introduced one million euros into the economic circuit, distributed mainly in Italy, France, Greece and Spain,” explained a spokesperson for the Spanish National Police.
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“The clandestine printing press which was dismantled operated in Naples, then in Rome, and produced very high quality bank notes, even bypassing most payment machines.”
This police operation involving Spanish, Italian and Greek law enforcement agencies began last November after the discovery of a large number of counterfeit 100 euro notes in Barcelona.