North Hungary criminals forge large amount of dollar, hrivnya notes

Budapest, April 26 (MTI) – The prosecutor of northern Hungary’s Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplen county has raised charges against two men in Miskolc, who are suspected of having forged US dollars and Ukrainian hrivnyas worth a total 160 million forints (EUR 512,000).

The suspects, aged 54 and 60, produced the fake banknotes using machinery at a press where the younger one worked. The two could even convince the unsuspecting manager of the press to purchase a new, digital printing machine through promises of a large order, which they then used for their own purpose.

The police cracked down on the forgers in July last year, after some of the fakes turned up in circulation.

Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters