this National Police arrested 2 people on the pretext of work Europe’s largest banknote counterfeitto be caught altea after being dismantled last September La Nucia ship a laboratory that can produce more eight million euros in counterfeit 500 banknotes.
These arrests are part of the second phase of the exploitation of the joint operation of the National Police and Mossos d’Esquadra. In September, 12 people were arrested, including the ringleader and main distributors, and last month they arrested two businessmen who, according to Police, collaborated with the counterfeiting network and concealed purchases of foreign materials and machinery with front companies. Fake 500 euro banknotes.
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These acquisitions were made by creating a network. Shell companies as they accumulate criminal records for similar acts, providing them with the necessary capacity to interact with commercial solvency with other commercial companies and to conceal the identity of those under investigation.
Investigation Broken network in Marina Baixa controlled from the very beginning. Educational Court number 4 of Sant Feliu de Llobregat (Barcelona), however, this agency has just agreed to block the National Court at the request of Francisco González, a lawyer defending Tomás MJ, described by the Prosecutor’s Office and the Police as the most important banknote counterfeiting in Europe.
The jurisdiction of counterfeiting crimes committed by criminal groups rests with the central Tribunals and now the Supreme Court. national audience You must decide whether to accept the blocking ordered by the court of Sant Feliu.
According to this newspaper, published at the end of November, four house searches were conducted in Altea and Picassent, linked to the emotional couple and their expert counterfeit parents.
These calls, investigators purchase of more than one ton of high quality and secure paper. The criminal group investigated, such papers Chinese only through companies created for this fact.
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Traces of traceability of the sale of a machine used for “offset” were also found, as well as the purchase of different industrial machines from abroad, which were carried out with the same commercial activities. print tickets and a laser machine used to make metal plates.
According to the police, the records were tampered with with special machines to make counterfeit banknotes, in particular a printing press and another laminating machine.
On the contrary, agents they couldn’t find tons of papers anti-counterfeiting security with a watermark from China, and some metal plates that the head of the organization will do.