Employees of the first operational-investigative unit of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the North Caucasus Federal District and employees of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia liquidated a large production of counterfeit money. In several regions of Russia, 11 people were detained who are suspected of making and selling counterfeit banknotes.

It was preliminarily established that the underground printing house was equipped in a private household of a resident of the Levashinsky district of Dagestan. The police found a printing press and a cliché for making 5,000-ruble and 100-dollar banknotes, paint, paper, and components needed to imitate banknote security. In addition, more than 300 submachine gun cartridges were seized.

According to investigators, fakes were distributed in the Rostov region, the Stavropol Territory, Ingushetia, Chechnya, and Dagestan. It documented the facts of the sale of counterfeit five-thousandth banknotes in the amount of EUR 133,000. They were sold at a price one and a half to two times lower than their face value. The products of illegal manufacturers could be recognized only with the help of special equipment.

One of the alleged participants in the criminal scheme, who was responsible for the transportation of fakes, was detained by police in Pyatigorsk. She was transporting 1,271 counterfeit banknotes worth more than EUR 76,333 in her bag.

For the detainees, a preventive measure was chosen in the form of detention for up to 2 months. The issue of initiating a criminal case against them for organizing and participating in a criminal community is being resolved.