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Counterfeit money from the Balkans in the EU: Criminal networks from Romania print fake euros, dollars, and dinars

The largest quantities of counterfeit money reaching the Balkans and European Union countries originate from illegal factories located on the territory of Romania.

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03.02.2026. 11:30

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Counterfeit money from the Balkans in the EU: Criminal networks from Romania print fake euros, dollars, and dinars
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Criminal groups involved in further distribution acquire counterfeit banknotes at a price amounting to only 20 percent of the value of genuine money. For example, one million euros in fake currency costs 200,000 euros.

According to RTCG, counterfeit euros, Kuwaiti dinars, and U.S. dollars are produced in Romania, while the British pound is the most difficult currency to counterfeit.

Members of these criminal groups often present themselves as Italians, Arabs, Greeks, or Czechs, and among them are also criminals from the territory of the former Yugoslavia.

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Theysearch newspaper and online advertisements for real estate, luxury cars, yachts, valuable jewelry, watches, works of art, and even horses.

Meeting locations are usually cities in northern Italy, while cities in France, the Benelux countries, or Spain are used as a “backup option.”

They operate in larger groups, making it harder for the police to understand the group’s structure and the scale of the fraud. This allows the leaders of criminal groups to keep those lower in the hierarchy unaware of the total size of the profits.

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