EUROOPOL: The person arrested in Kosovo for counterfeit money, Macedonian MPB employee

European Police Agency (EUROPOL) said the person who was arrested on August 4th in Kosovo for producing hundreds of thousands of fake coins worth two euros “has been identified as interior ministry employees in northern Macedonia”.

A day earlier, authorities in Kosovo said that the 48-hour detention measure has been imposed on those arrested.

His arrest is the culmination of a several-month operation between Kosovo and Macedonian authorities with the support of EUROOPOL and Eurojust [the European Union for Co-operation in Criminal Justice]”, the ECOPOL report said on August 6th.

The EU agency said the 34-year-old man arrested in Pristina allegedly forged hundreds of thousands of 2 euro coins in the past two years.

Meanwhile, in northern Macedonia it is said to have been conducted in three locations and counterfeit money production machines, 2 euro metal cuts, money templates and other materials for the production of counterfeit currency, including all the first subject of their production, have been seized.

Last year, Kosovo Police had initiated hundreds of cases of criminal activity “falsification of money” while it was estimated that hundreds of thousands of fake euros were circulated in the market.

False money worth 2 and 50 euros has been circulated at most.

In some cases merchants have banned payments from such currency for fear of fraud. /rel

Kosovo citizen arrested, cars producing 2 fakes