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Press Used To Print Millions of US Banknotes Seized In Quebec

Posted by samzenpus on from the close-to-perfect dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Canadian Royal Mounted Police report: An offset printing press used to manufacture counterfeit $20 banknotes was seized by the RCMP and US Secret Service. This significant seizure was made earlier today in the Trois-Rivières area. The authorities had been looking for this offset press for several years. A large quantity of paper was also seized by police, that could have been used by the counterfeiters to manufacture from $40-$200 million. The very high quality counterfeit notes were virtually undetectable to the naked eye. Some of the features they had were uncommon, including the type of paper used, which was especially made with a Jackson watermark and a dark vertical stripe imitating the security thread found in authentic notes."

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  1. How they were detected by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They were printed in both English and French, to avoid breaking Canadian bilingualism laws.

    1. Re:How they were detected by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      The "In God We Trust, eh?" was another tip-off.

    2. Re:How they were detected by Thomas+Miconi · · Score: 5, Funny

      They were printed in both English and French, to avoid breaking Canadian bilingualism laws.

      Actually, they weren't. Which is the *real* reason why the Quebec police busted them.