{"id":11054,"date":"2017-03-10T20:35:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T20:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/kosovo-police-find-e2m-fake-banknotes-in-taxi\/"},"modified":"2017-03-10T20:35:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T20:35:08","slug":"kosovo-police-find-e2m-fake-banknotes-in-taxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/kosovo-police-find-e2m-fake-banknotes-in-taxi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kosovo police find \u20ac2m fake banknotes in taxi"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The evidence seized by police is arranged on a table at a press event held by the authorities\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/0A0A\/production\/_95107520_10_03_2017_2025194_01.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Kosovo Police<figcaption>Image caption                                      The find included millions in counterfeit notes and supplies for printing more                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Police in Kosovo have seized more than \u20ac2m (\u00a31.76m) in fake banknotes, in what authorities say is the largest seizure in decades.<\/p>\n<p>A taxi containing two men, identified as being from Cameroon and Albania, was stopped entering Kosovo at the border with Albania on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Police discovered fake banknotes in \u20ac50, \u20ac100, \u20ac200 and \u20ac500 denominations in a bag in the taxi&#039;s trunk.<\/p>\n<p>Sheets of paper cut to banknote size and printing chemicals were also found.<\/p>\n<p>Kosovo police said that after counting the notes, they had found the face values totalled \u20ac2,131,000.<\/p>\n<p>Two Cameroonian passports and a residency permit for France were also confiscated, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Both men were taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Kosovo has an unenviable reputation as a smugglers&#039; haven, the BBC&#039;s Balkans correspondent, Guy De Launey, says.<\/p>\n<p>Historically a province of Serbia, Kosovo declared independence in 2008 and is supported by EU legal officials and Nato peacekeeping troops.<\/p>\n<p>It is recognised by the US and most EU countries but not by Serbia or its ally Russia. <\/p>\n<p>In November, about \u20ac13m in counterfeit notes was discovered in nearby Bulgaria in bundles of the \u20ac500 denomination.<\/p>\n<p>The European Central Bank announced it would stop producing the \u20ac500 note by the end of 2018, amid fears that its high value facilitated criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-39238148 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Kosovo PoliceImage caption The find included millions in counterfeit notes and supplies for printing more Police in Kosovo have seized more than \u20ac2m (\u00a31.76m) in fake banknotes, in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}