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...Britain, prices rose this year after growers lost much of their crop to the heatwave. A 1.8-m Norway spruce, the most popular variety, will cost at least $25. But if those garden-centre specimens are a little too spindly for your taste, there's always the fake fir option. A 1.8-m "decorated silver and gold fibre optic tree" will set you back $85 at U.K. retailer Argos...
...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. One of the culprits: weak or nonexistent anticounterfeiting legislation in some East European countries, which makes it nearly...
Police say that their biggest worry is not the value of the currency - fake bills make up only a small fraction of the total number in circulation, they believe - but rather the possibility that vendors will stop 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...
...fact, police throughout the euro zone are reporting a sharp rise in cases of people caught trying to pass counterfeit bills. Austrian antifraud investigators who rarely laid eyes on a fake schilling before the changeover reported 3,000 cases of counterfeit euros last year. This year, they've seen 15,000, mostly originating in Bulgaria, says Erich Zwettler, an anticounterfeiting investigator in Vienna. Next door in the German state of Bavaria, police also report an increase in forgeries from Lithuania, Italy and Turkey (mainly coins). Some 7,500 cases are awaiting trial in Bavaria alone. Police say that the most...
Captain Dante Balestracci’s rush on a fake punt set up Fitzpatrick’s touchdown pass to freshman wide receiver Corey Mazza...