Fake $2000 Peso Bill Being Circulated

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From today's Sosua News:


Thursday November 7, there was a press release from the Executive Board of the Central Bank in which they warned for fake 2000 peso bills. The notes are printed with the date 2013. So all 2000 peso bills with the date 2013 next to the serial number have been falsified. So far, the central bank hasn't put into circulation any 2000 peso bills in the year 2013.
According to the investigation department, the notes were printed in France.

Except for the date 2013, the notes are very difficult to trace. The notes are very well made with all marks as metal wires, watermarks etc.
 

Robert

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From today's Sosua News:


Thursday November 7, there was a press release from the Executive Board of the Central Bank in which they warned for fake 2000 peso bills. The notes are printed with the date 2013. So all 2000 peso bills with the date 2013 next to the serial number have been falsified. So far, the central bank hasn't put into circulation any 2000 peso bills in the year 2013.
According to the investigation department, the notes were printed in France.

Except for the date 2013, the notes are very difficult to trace. The notes are very well made with all marks as metal wires, watermarks etc.

Read yesterdays story in the DR1 news, it's better, with more details, what a surprise :)

5. RD$2,000 bill recall
Central Bank manager Ervin Novas Bello says that the problem with the RD$2,000 bill 2013 series originated in France at the banknote printer, Oberthur Fiduciaire, one of the leading private security printers in the world. As reported in El Dia, when the rejects from the printing operation should have been pulped, some 8,403 RD$2,000 banknotes went missing. Nova said that the bills that are circulating in the country were neither issued nor ever released by the Central Bank. The Central Bank says that if anyone has had problems with the RD$2,000 bill, they would change it for good 2000 bills in circulation.

Novas said that as of yesterday, Thursday 7 November they had detected 162 bills suspect to be the result of an irregular import into the Dominican Republic of the bills stolen in France as a result of the company's security breach. He said he does not know how many are circulating locally. As reported, 2,336 of the RD$2,000 banknotes were discovered in France.

As reported in Diario Libre, the Central Bank was notified about the problem on 17 July, but that the first public notification of the circulation of the bills was not made until 1 November.

"The Central Bank has not made the 2013 bills legal tender." He said the shipment of the bills would not be used in the country.

Santo Domingo prosecutor Olga Dina Llaverias says that a man is under arrest in connection with the case. Lawyer Tomas Castro identified him as his client Ciriaco Ventura Liranzo, an exchange house owner in Santo Domingo East. As reported in Diario Libre, Ventura exchanged US$82,000 on 31 October receiving the payment in RD$2,000 bills or RD$3,493,200.

The Central Bank announced it would take legal action against the French banknote printer for the damage caused by the problem.

The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic is warning the public that these invalid RD$2,000 bills are in circulation. The bank makes it clear that this warning only applies to the RD$2,000 bill that appears with the year or series 2013 since all other bills in other denominations bearing the year 2013 are legal tender. For more information, call 809 221 9111, extension 3839 between 8:30am and 5pm.

Oberthur Fiduciaire - One of the leading private security printers in the world specialised in banknotes