Europol said that 36 homes, across Germany, Austria, France, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg and Spain, had been searched. A total of 11 arrests have been made, plus a further 33 suspects have been detained for questioning.
According to Europol, the banknotes were made by the darknet’s second-largest counterfeit currency producer, with more than 26,000 fake banknotes had been bought from and delivered by the gang, BBC cited the agency.
The estimated face value of the notes was about EUR 1.3 million. A print shop in Lower Saxony, Germany, said to have specialised in fake documents, has also been dismantled.
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