Forensic experts in the Bulgarian city of Shumen have identified and arrested a 35-year-old man who attempted to pay for a soft drink with a counterfeit 50-euro banknote, the police reported. The ...

Police in Spain have issued an alert over fake Euro notes used as film props which are appearing all over the country. The money, in denominations of five and ten Euros, looks authentic but bears the ...

Police fear crime is on the rise because of the economic crisis and have warned people to beware of counterfeit euros. Detectives have noted a marked rise in shoplifting and burglaries which are being ...

A warning has been issued about counterfeit currency after a number of sellers across Northern Ireland have been reportedly scammed with the fake notes. Police said there have been a number of reports ...

NAPLES Italy (Reuters) - Italian finance police arrested a man who concealed a haul of forged 50-euro banknotes equivalent to 17 million euros (13.31 million pounds) in a van outside a shopping centre ...

A conman who used fake euro 50 notes to get change in sterling at Debenhams in The Oracle has been jailed. Leonard Hooper, 30, was caught after acting suspiciously at the tills after his fifth ...

Demand for fake euro notes rose in the second half of 2013. The number if counterfeits taken out of circulation went up 11.4 per cent from the first half of the year. The European Central Bank (ECB) ...

A 30-year-old man has been charged after fake euros worth more than £150,000 were found in a raid on a suspected counterfeit currency factory in Kent. The forged cash was recovered after the National ...

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Two hundred and sixty-five thousand counterfeit euro notes were taken out of circulation in the second half of last year, according to new figures from the European Central Bank. The bank says 90% of ...

Some Lithuanians were a bit too anxious to introduce the euro to their country. In what is being billed as the largest seizure of counterfeit euro notes since they were introduced, Lithuanian police ...