400 people have been arrested for the falsification of 19 million € of notes in three years.

 The 100 € notes were found by the National Police in one their recent operations.

The arrests come thanks to the coordination of the national forces with the regional police and international cooperation, resulting in an efficient persecution of the crime.
The National Police have a specialised unit against fake money, which has broken up 35 organisations in three years.

This latest operation ended with the arrest of ten people in the city of Plodiv in Bulgaria where 660 fake 100 € notes were found in conjunction with Europol and Eurojust.

In Spain operations have taken place in Murcia, and Gijón.
Over the past 3 years the security services have arrested 415 people, broken up 35 gangs, and dismantled 24 distribution centres in several operations. It’s thought the face value of the notes collected amounts to as much as 19 million €.

In the face of these high numbers the Director General has advised the public to look at their notes, ‘Touch, study and turn it over’. The police says a real Euro note has a certain firm tact and characteristic which is missing on the fake notes. When Euro notes are put up to the light you should see three security items. The watermark, the security thread, and inside the note which can’t normally see, but it you put it to the light and look at the white part of the note you can a design which includes the number of Euros of the note.