YEREVAN, February 17. /ARKA/. Russia’s law enforcement agencies found 80,243 fake units (mostly banknotes) of the Russian currency in 2014 – by 8,810 more than a year before, Banki.ru reports referring to the central bank’s report on forgery in Russia’s banking sector.
Predominantly large denominations are forged – 60,911 five-thousand-ruble notes 16,545 one-thousand-ruble notes and 2,100 five-hundred-ruble notes were among the detected counterfeits.
Remarkable is that in Russia coins are forged as well – 208 fake five-ruble coins and 18 ten-ruble coins were found here in 2014.
The Central Federal District was singled out in the central bank’s report for the biggest number of the detected fake banknotes and coins (52,036) in 2014 and Far East for the smallest number (507). Some 9,509 fake banknotes and coins were found in North-Western District, 5,988 in Privolzhskiy, 5,075 in Southern District and 592 in Crimea.
Fake dollars dominate Russia’s forged money turnover – 2,046 fake banknotes were found here in 2014 with 144 euro banknotes and 32 Chinese yuan banknotes.
The total number of foreign currency banknotes detected in Russia was 2,229 in 2014. –0–
