A European Central Bank, checking the quality of already-printed euro showed that the new currency is not protected from forgery. Part of circulation because of the discrepancy standards in general, was sent for recycling. But police in many countries began to prepare for a possible appearance in the circulation of counterfeit euro. I have a few euro in principle different from the existing national currencies. First, the new banknotes are printed on unusually thin paper - a thickness of only about 0.1 mm. Denznaki produced in different countries and, strangely enough, have a visible difference in color. The contours of infrared tags (IR-tags), which become visible only under irradiation in the infrared spectrum of banknotes, also vary among different banknotes
Since ordinary Europeans and foreign tourists are unlikely to be able to quickly memorize the appearance of new money, the existence of a large number of options to make the euro a convenient target for forgery.
The audit, conducted by experts from the European Central Bank in Frankfurt-am-Main, it was found that the new currency is not as well protected as the government argues the EU. The main way to protect the euro, however, as well as Russian rubles are already mentioned IKmetki. At the Russian rubles for each denomination has its own map of the location of tags. On the euro is a different denomination infrared tags are present in the same place. Poor protection of euro counterfeiting concerns among EU police force. Many experts even expressed confidence that after 1 January 2002, when euro cash will be included in treatment, together with a large number, and counterfeit money. Moreover, the forger had sufficient time to print them.
Our detectors - not obmanesh
Recall that at the beginning of September in Germany, was robbed collector car carrying the euro. According to official information, criminals are not touched euro banknotes to meet several million DM, is also in the car. However, information from other sources, the true facts relating to the story, is not disclosed, so as not to escalate tensions among the population. It is considered, in particular, that the criminals were interested in precisely the euro, and they acted on the order of a very serious counterfeiter. The name of even the amount that is estimated to stolen goods. It is as much as 15 million U.S. dollars. Because criminals have not been, for fear that counterfeit euros have already appeared, there is every reason to. During the inspection svezheotpechatannyh denznakov at the headquarters of the ECB has also proved that a portion of genuine banknotes not meet the standard. For example, an unexpected surprise waiting for manufacturers of euro in Italy. Italians face-value banknotes of 500 Euro was infrared tags are not where they should be.
The party should now be sent for processing. Another story came from that part of the banknotes, which were printed in different countries, but at the same hardware. Before you begin testing, the organizers distributed among the participants with the official release of information about the location of the IR-tags. But look at the screen detectors, in addition to the official labels, there are several others that are not stated in the release.
Notably, the defect is discovered after the euro checks detectors Russia. The reliability of the Russian currency detectors known in the market is not the first year: DORS detectors used not only by the Central Bank and Sberbank of Russia, but the Federal Reserve Bank of United States.
