Hungarian police break counterfeiting operation
Police seized fake money from a restaurant in north Hungary, a local police official said on Thursday.
Police, acting on a tip-off, found the low-quality forgeries of 20,000 forint bills amounting to 12 million forints (EUR 40,000) in a restaurant in Esztergom, said Gabriella Leber, spokeswoman of Komarom-Esztergom County police force.
Detectives found the 601 fake bills contained in the bag of a 29 year-old local man. The bills were traced to a flat in another locality in Bacs-Kiskun, south of Budapest, where police confiscated photocopying and computer equipment.
Police suspect the bills of having been used in previously detected minor criminal transactions.
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