By Hubert Walker for CoinWeek ….
Police in Madrid, Spain arrested three individuals yesterday on charges of counterfeiting up to 12,000 €2 euro coins over a period of five years.
The three appeared to be running the counterfeiting operation out of their houses, using equipment readily-available at the average home improvement store. During the arrests, officers found a total of almost 8,000 counterfeits at the three houses, along with 400 coins in varying stages of production.
The trio are no strangers to counterfeiting charges. All three have been arrested and convicted before, in connection to the forgery of 500-peseta coins before Spain switched to the euro in 2002.
The investigation innto the counterfeit €2 euro coins was a collaboration between the Madrid Transport Police and the Bank of Spain General Judicial Police.
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Sources
http://www.thelocal.es/20141230/police-bust-spanish-coin-forgers
http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/12/30/inenglish/1419944629_289249.html
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