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The circulation of fake euros has decreased considerably in Spain so far this year.Three major police raids against printers manufacturing inauthentic banknotes and coins have led to less movement of fraudulent money in the country According to data held by the Bank of Spain , which El Confidencial Digital has had ; In the first half of a total of 251,000 counterfeit euro banknotes were withdrawn from circulation in the Eurozone, making the total amount withdrawn from January to June 2012 15.2% lower than the withdrawal in the same period. in 2011. Also the amount withdrawn in the first half of was 19.0% lower than that withdrawn in the previous half. Therefore, the proportion of counterfeit bills remains very low in relation to the authentic ones, the sources consulted highlight. 20 and 50 bills, the most counterfeited The 0 and €50 denominations continue to be the most counterfeited.
Over the past six months, the proportion of counterfeit €20 notes has decreased, while that of €50 notes has increased slightly . The two most counterfeited denominations together represented 77.0% of the total in the first half of . The €100 bill is the third most counterfeited denomination, with 17.0% of the total. The proportion of counterfeits Middle East Mobile Number List of the other denominations (€5, €10, €200 and €500) is very low . Dismantling counterfeit printing presses Police sources, consulted by ECD , explain that the reason for this decrease is found in several operations to dismantle printing presses that were dedicated to the manufacture of counterfeit euro banknotes. The Police dismantled in Gijón , in January 2011, a clandestine printing press for counterfeiting fifty-euro banknotes in an operation in which more than eleven thousand counterfeit euros were seized ready for circulation and material to produce others for a total of 14,900 euros.

Also, a gang of money counterfeiters dismantled last year in Alicante and Murcia had already released at least two million counterfeit euros onto the Spanish and European market in the clandestine printing press that they had set up in an industrial warehouse in Murcia. In fact, the ringleader had lent his own company, dedicated to the importation of canned goods , to install the machines where the money was produced . The Civil Guard dismantled a criminal organization in March of this year, made up of a Spaniard and eight other people of Eastern European nationalities, dedicated to the introduction of counterfeit banknotes into Spain and the cloning of credit cards. Five home searches were carried out in which 240,000 false euros and material necessary for cloning credit cards were recovered . By then, the Treasury will have already achieved what it proposes: collecting.
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