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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 6 August 2021)
"Mint" condition home office.
In Istanbul, some taxi drivers filed complaints with the police, saying that
two years ago people identifying themselves as tourists gave them
counterfeit $100 bills. Since then similar complaints have continued to
increase.
In an effort to nab the counterfeiter, police examined the fake money
and noticed that, just like real dollars, these fake ones had 'holograms',
'bulges' and 'color-changing ink'. These bills passed through many
detection machines as genuine.
After months of investigations, police determined that the fake money
was being printed by Refik Şahin in a flat in Esenyurt. Last Tuesday
in a raid police seized $5.65 million worth of fake 100 banknotes, a
computer used for printing the bills, a printer, cutting implements and
a machine that combined three different papers. Şahin was jailed.
Şahin received $20 for every $100 he sold to "wholesalers", who, in
turn, gave the fake money to "tektekçi" - those able to pass the fake
banknotes by posing as tourists and targeting taxi drivers.
The artist in a pensive moment.
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