{"id":238338,"date":"2024-04-06T00:04:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T18:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=238338"},"modified":"2024-04-06T00:04:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T18:34:33","slug":"german-investigators-seize-fake-us-bills-with-a-face-value-of-over-103-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/04\/06\/german-investigators-seize-fake-us-bills-with-a-face-value-of-over-103-million\/","title":{"rendered":"German investigators seize fake US bills with a face value of over $103 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BERLIN, 5 Apr (AP) \u2014 German investigators said Friday they have seized counterfeit U.S. dollar bills with a face value of over $103 million, which apparently came from Turkey and were being stored ahead of transport to the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The criminal police office in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany\u2019s northernmost state, said officers found 75 cartons of fake dollars in searches of an apartment and two company addresses after tips from U.S. authorities led them to firms run by a man who is suspected of exporting counterfeit money to the U.S. in the past.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bills, known as \u201cprop copy\u201d or \u201cmovie money,\u201d could be recognized as fakes when scrutinized closely, but Germany\u2019s central bank and U.S. authorities believe they could be mistaken for real money in everyday life, police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They believe the counterfeits came from a wholesaler in Turkey who was using one of the suspect\u2019s export firms in Juebek, near the Danish border, for interim storage before the bills were shipped to the U.S. The 42-year-old suspect, a Turkish national, wasn\u2019t arrested but faces an investigation under Germany\u2019s law against counterfeiting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, 5 Apr (AP) \u2014 German investigators said Friday they have seized counterfeit U.S. dollar bills with a face value of over $103 million, which apparently came from Turkey and were being stored ahead of transport to the United States. The criminal police office in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany\u2019s northernmost state, said officers found 75 cartons of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-238338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}