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...police seized another shipment of €79,500 worth of high-quality €50 notes (together with 138 false E.U. passports) allegedly printed at the same shop and destined, they say, for the E.U. Bulgarian forgers are among the most active in Europe, but they are not alone. Across Eastern Europe - and recently in the West as well - skilled forgers have been churning out fake euros at an alarming rate. Fraud police in the 12 countries of the euro zone report a sharp increase in both the quantity and quality of counterfeit notes entering circulation this year...
...accepting some bills. "We are still in the 'green' [i.e., safe] period," says Eduard Liedgens, head of anticounterfeiting at the Bavarian police and one of Germany's top fraud investigators. "It is not hurting the economy. But there is a problem of trust." Mindful of that threat, police in Eastern Europe - with the assistance of the European Union's law-enforcement branch, Europol - have been trying to crack down. Bulgaria, one of the world's biggest counterfeit havens, has broken up 13 euro print shops in the past 12 months. Serbian police closed down three rings over about the same...
...former Yugoslavia, are buying up large quantities of special scanners and pens with UV lights to spot fakes. What progress has been made is the result of tighter coordination between police inside and outside the euro zone. Until recently, police in Western Europe rarely shared actionable intelligence with their Eastern counterparts. But that is starting to change. Busts in Bulgaria, for example, were the result of tip-offs from U.S. and German police, as well as Europol, which serves as a clearing house for information and criminal analysis and is ultimately responsible for protecting the currency. Every month, agents from...
...1960s the Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino reflected Asian Americans at that point” Chow said. According to Chow, the experience of Southern and South-Eastern Asians has become increasingly significant over the past four decades...
...Harvard men’s swimming team opened its season with a convincing win over Columbia in New York, capturing 12 of 16 events despite the absence of several swimmers who helped propel the squad to last year’s Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL) title...