In Kazanlak, a grocery store owner recently identified a counterfeit 100-euro banknote in circulation. Tihomir Bezlov, chief expert of the Security program at the Center for the Study of Democracy, ...

Bulgaria has registered its first case of counterfeit euro banknotes, highlighting the challenges posed by the new currency, which remains unfamiliar to many. Some of the fake notes are of relatively ...

There have been multiple recent cases of counterfeit euro notes circulating in Bulgaria. In one incident, a customer received ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police said on Saturday they had made 14 arrests in connection with one million euros ($1.1 million) worth of counterfeit 100 euro bank notes which passed undetected by ATMs ...

The UK government has issued a new warning to Brits travelling to Turkey, cautioning them over the risk of counterfeit banknotes. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has said that ...

New versions of the 100- and 200-euro banknotes have updated anti-counterfeiting features and a slimmer size that should make them easier to fit into wallets and purses. The new notes, shown off ...

A record low proportion of fake euro banknotes were seized in 2020, according to European Central Bank data, with 20- and 50-euro notes most popular among counterfeiters. Some 460,000 fake euro ...

Law enforcement agencies across Europe have carried out actions against suspects who bought counterfeit euro banknotes on illegal platforms on the Darknet. These actions, coordinated by Europol, ...

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria has seized more than $1.35 million in fake banknotes and charged three men suspected with membership of an organized crime ring making counterfeit bills, prosecutors said on ...

NAPLES Italy (Reuters) - Italian finance police arrested a man who concealed a haul of forged 50-euro banknotes equivalent to 17 million euros ($21.8 million) in a van outside a shopping center near ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters Life!) - The value of the euro may have come under pressure in recent months, but there is some good news for the single European currency -- the production of counterfeit notes and ...