Word: counterfeit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow churches. One of them would dress in rags and rattle a tin cup at the church door while the other whipped out of the car's luggage compartment an assortment of crucifixes, icons, tracts and lamps and did a brisk business at a fat profit until the counterfeit beggar tipped him off that the cops were coming. One day the agents of the Department for Fighting Theft and Speculation seized...
...Knows? By last week, the police seemed to be more confused than ever. Gaby Rouze told of having had dealings with "two women" who tried to buy the paintings with counterfeit bills. Later the police were sent off on a wild-goose chase to a supposed cache in a deserted grange in Antibes. Francis Roux has received three ransom notes demanding $8,000, $12,000 and finally, $16,000. Last week the police arrested a sixth suspect, who they think may have had the paintings for a while and then passed them on. But to whom? The suspect merely shrugged...