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If you have ever wondered how modern counterfeiters make fakes, sell them to people and even manage to deceive ATMs - this topic is for you. How long do counterfeiters live, what does the darknet and stash men have to do with it. The history of counterfeit money and the most dangerous money scammers.
Just one or two years ago, the Internet was simply flooded with advertisements for some candy wrappers for 10-30% of the face value. You could come across such ads, for example, on Instagram, scrolling through the feed or watching stories. Or on Telegram, on various channels, in comments and even in private messages from unknown people. Most often from girls with model appearance or from serious uncles in elegant suits and expensive cars. And if the usual advertising of dubious offers is limited to this, then in this case it has flooded most social networks and websites.
TikTok, YouTube, various forums and the like. After all, they advertise some narrowly targeted goods or services, often the target audience can be in a specific place, like spinners or beautiful iPhone cases. And what interests everyone, what, as they say, is never too much. Yes, candy wrappers mean money, namely, advertising for the sale of money, no matter how strange it may sound, was found almost everywhere.
People were offered to buy a certain amount for only 10-30% of its face value. Roughly speaking, a person wants 100 thousand rubles, so in theory he throws these unknown people only 20 thousand, and they, in turn, give him his desired hundred in return. I think that you, by the way, with your opinions on such an offer are divided into two fronts. Some believe that this is a scam and they will not send anything, while others believe that this is simply not real money, but counterfeit.
And I don't know who those unique individuals from the third front are who thought that everything was clean here, but even such people will always turn out to be soft as skunks. And here is a situation where both are right, because some of the offers were pure scams, that is, deception, and the people who sent their real money received nothing in exchange. But another part of the ads concerns the sale of counterfeit money, which will be our topic today.
Well, what about the money? Counterfeiters. How do they make candy wrappers, that is, counterfeit money? Is it possible to pay with such money in stores and put it on a card? What prison term awaits those who get busted? And the most interesting thing about counterfeiters, how long do they live? Listen carefully, it will be entertaining.
Probably, many in childhood, paying attention to the poverty around them and the financial problems that adults face, naively wondered why it is impossible to simply print more money.
Having grown up, some people learned what inflation is and understood why it cannot be done. The other part still does not understand anything and lives in ignorance with dissonance, which still worries them, and which they can share with you at some drunken parties or in public transport complaining about the hard life. But there are those who went beyond boring theory and discussions on the topic of why it is impossible to print more money, and took this process into their own hands, and call these businessmen counterfeiters.
I think there is no need to explain what words this particular word is formed from, it is not difficult to guess, as well as to understand that since coins are focused in it, it was invented a long time ago, when banknotes were not yet used. In principle, it is logical. But few people know that counterfeiting coins for the sake of profit appeared simultaneously with the first metal money.
The oldest counterfeit money ever found is a copy of a silver coin from the sixth century BC on the Greek island of Aegina. The counterfeit is made of copper with a silver coating and very high technical execution. Initially, when money had a real value equal to the weight of gold, silver, copper contained in the coins, the main method was to issue counterfeit coins from cheaper alloys or smaller in size. In fact, money had just begun to be used and scammers immediately appeared.
Later in history, counterfeit money was issued even at the state level, with the aim of undermining the economy of a hostile power. One of the first mentions of fascist money at the state level is Napoleon's use of fascist Russian money in the war of 1812. Or, for example, Operation Bernhardt. This is a secret German operation for the mass production of counterfeit banknotes, mainly pounds sterling, which was in effect during World War II.
The original goal of the operation was the collapse of the English financial system by dropping counterfeit pounds from airplanes. A group of counterfeiters was created and within 18 months they managed to decipher and reproduce the structure of the paper, create plates and reproduce the encrypted numbering system of British banknotes. It did not come to the mass release of counterfeit pounds into circulation. In 1942, using prisoners in a concentration camp, they managed to print, according to various estimates, from 132 to 300 million counterfeit pounds.
The quality of the counterfeits was extraordinary. Experts could hardly distinguish them. The funds received were used to carry out secret operations, pay off agents of German intelligence, buy weapons on the black market and supply impronization groups. In general, it would be quite naive to claim that counterfeiting money by the state is a rare occurrence. According to various estimates, many large countries at one time or another secretly issued counterfeit money, both their own and foreign.
And they did it for various reasons, the details of which we will not go into today, because despite a few interesting historical facts that I voiced earlier, the topic of today's video concerns primarily modern counterfeiters who do this business not to defeat the enemy. Unless their enemy is poverty, because these guys just want a rich life. So, at the beginning of the video, I talked about candy wrapper ads that simply flooded the Internet a few years ago.
Now you can also stumble upon something similar, but the likelihood is much lower, since such ads have become more thoroughly checked. And given that the ads were on publicly available and well-known resources, one was intended mainly for users who, due to their computer literacy, will not be able to get into the Darknet. For this reason, all sales were mainly through Telegram. Yes, most of the ads were just a scam, but some actually sent the goods.
And here the question is how they did it, since there were two options.
The first is bookmarks. Yes, this is how they distribute not only illegal substances, but also counterfeit money, which is also illegal, of course. Yes, unlike cats, candy wrappers usually took up a little more space, but they are not suitcases, so they managed to hide them within the city, but most often they do this in a forest belt and send the client the coordinates.
The second option for distribution is mail. Yes, some particularly smart characters send counterfeits by mail, and others, no less smart, take these packages.
I think you can guess that in this case, the likelihood of being caught is much higher. It turns out that counterfeiters sell their goods on Telegram and the Darknet, and distribute them through bookmarks and mail. And before I tell you how counterfeit money is made and how long counterfeiters and their clients live, I have a very useful advertisement. Seriously, I advise you not to skip it, unless you have already seen it.
So, the main method of protecting banknotes from counterfeiting is the arms race principle. That is, the use of various means that make it extremely difficult at this stage of technology development to reproduce them outside of enterprises that have the right to produce genuine banknotes. Difficult.
To put it simply, progress does not stand still, and the guys are constantly trying to make such banknotes that will be extremely difficult to repeat. For example, they use special paper, fine mesh, small details in the image and watermarks, metallography, Orlov printing, microprinting, kip effect, color-changing image paint that develops in ultraviolet light, magnetic elements, image templates that are invisible to the eye, etc. Despite such a list of materials and technologies that are difficult at first glance, counterfeiters can repeat most of these points.
And this is where professionalism comes into play. There are those who cannot repeat even some details, but they do not care. They sell 100 thousand counterfeit rubles for only 5-10 thousand real ones, which in the end are usually foisted off not in banks and stores, but in the markets by some inattentive swindler, and so on. Roughly speaking, they do not deceive large enterprises and banks, but ordinary people, who are always the most pitiful. But not these guys.
And there are those who sell 100 thousand counterfeit rubles for, say, 50 thousand real ones, only half as much. Such wrappers are often of very good quality. They can be accepted in some small store with equipment, in grocery stores, and sometimes even ATMs accept them. The most popular question regarding counterfeit money is why counterfeiters sell this money and do not use it themselves? The answer is very simple. Even if you have high-quality counterfeits, you can be caught.
And it is worth noting that counterfeiting money has always been considered the most serious state crime in any country and is punishable to the fullest extent of the law. Therefore, it takes a lot of effort to catch people who produce and distribute counterfeit money. I will tell you a few such cases. For example, several years ago, the police of 13 countries, including Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Great Britain, etc. conducted more than 300 searches and arrested 235 people after shutting down a Darknet platform selling counterfeit money.
The large-scale operation began in the summer of 2018 when Austrian federal police tracked down and arrested the owner of a large Darknet resource where counterfeit money was sold. According to the investigation, the criminal printed counterfeit 10, 20 and 50 euro banknotes, and his printing shop was located in the city of Lioben. Before his arrest, the perpetrator managed to create and distribute more than 10,000 counterfeit bills.
Not 10 thousand euros, but 10 thousand notes from 10 to 50 euros. Although he accepted payments in cryptocurrency, he also kept track of all the postal addresses to which the counterfeit bills were eventually sent. When law enforcement officers seized all of the counterfeiter's equipment, a list of all of his recent customers was soon discovered, which was immediately handed over to Europol. As a result, law enforcement agencies, as I already said, conducted more than 300 searches of the customers on the list and found more than one and a half thousand counterfeit bills.
But since these were customers who bought the goods through the Darknet, it is not surprising that they found a lot of other interesting things. Cats, weapons, cryptocurrency mining equipment, bitcoins, a marijuana plantation, and another printing shop that was engaged in the production of counterfeit money in France. This is crazy. After that, Europol representatives said that this joint operation demonstrates that complete anonymity does not exist on the Darknet and the Internet.
If you are engaged in illegal activity online, be prepared for the fact that sooner or later the police will knock on your door. You might think that this was in Europe, where the police work properly and so on, there are no stash houses where the cops can put you in jail every day and earn themselves a baton on their shoulder straps and so on. Therefore, you might think that in the CIS countries, a business with counterfeit money could work. But let me tell you about a billion-ruble case.
A competitor of the Bank of Russia, which actively used IT technologies in its work, successfully printed and distributed more than 1 billion rubles. The counterfeits were of very high quality in Nizhny Novgorod, from where they were delivered to almost all regions of Russia through a secret network, using the Hydra darknet platform, when it was not yet blocked. The criminal organization included several dozen people, none of whom personally knew each other.
By the way, the Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed that this is not an ordinary case and there have been no similar cases in their practice. A criminal case under Part 3 of Article 186 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, that is, the production, storage, transportation or sale of counterfeit money or securities, was opened by the police of Tatarstan, where the first counterfeit bills were found. After that, counterfeit money similar to those seized in Kazan began to appear in many regions of Russia.
According to the employees of the Main Directorate for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Economic Development who participated in the operational activities, it was very difficult to document the activities of the members of this criminal group. For the purposes of conspiracy, all of its members communicated exclusively through HYDRA. The distribution of counterfeits was also carried out in a contactless manner through specially equipped hiding places. The law enforcement agency managed to get to the organizers of the underground business through several ordinary distributors. And from them the chain stretched to two 25-year-old Muscovites, a girl and a guy.
The latter, as the operatives found out, was the creator of online stores on the Hydra platform, through which the counterfeit money was sold, and according to the investigation, it was his peer who was engaged in it. Wholesale lots, that is, from 500 thousand rubles, went for 10-15% of the face value. But the main income came from small lots of 10 to 150 thousand rubles, which were in the greatest demand in the regions, and could be bought from counterfeiters for 30% of the face value.
After the buyer made a payment on the same Hydra, and exclusively with cryptocurrency, from Moscow using fake passports through a transport company, a batch of counterfeit money was sent to accomplices. And they, in turn, made caches in hiding places, usually in a deserted forest park area and transmitted the coordinates to buyers. The police were able to establish the identities of the organizers of the underground business and the direct manufacturers of counterfeit money only in the spring of this year.
During the search, two sets of printing equipment were seized from them, on which very high-quality counterfeit money was produced - color laser printers, laptops, banknote mock-ups, a laminator, threads for gluing into banknotes and blanks of coats of arms images. At the moment, it has already been established that the criminal group existed for about a year and during this time managed to carry out more than three thousand transactions for the sale of counterfeit money.
At the same time, not every detector could detect a counterfeit even in stores. In addition to the original article, that is, 186th Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, they were recently charged with committing a much more serious crime - organizing a criminal community or participating in it. Part one and part two of Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The defendants in this criminal case are several dozen manufacturers, distributors and buyers of counterfeit money, from almost three dozen Russian regions.
According to some sources, most of them, including the organizers, have already admitted their guilt, but even in this situation they face 15 years. Here is an example of how long counterfeiters live and I hope I have clearly explained that it is better not to get involved in this. The punishment for making counterfeit money has almost always been extremely strict. In the Middle Ages, in Europe, counterfeiters were boiled in boiling water or had molten metal poured down their throats, usually lead, since this is what counterfeit coins were usually made of.
In the Russian Empire, the punishment was also strict. For counterfeiting banknotes, those guilty were deprived of all legal status and exile to hard labor. Even in the 20th century in the USSR, making excess counterfeit coins or bills was punishable by death. After the collapse of the USSR, the death penalty for counterfeiting money was abolished in Russia. Currently, Article 186 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, that is, the production of excess counterfeit money or securities, provides for a punishment of 5 to 15 years of imprisonment.
Liability occurs if the person using counterfeit money knows that it is counterfeit, but tries to pass it off as real. At the same time, even if you did not know that it was a fake, you will still most likely be given a term, since you will be the ones to blame. Currently, a counterfeit banknote is easiest to find in places with intensive commodity turnover, for example, in a cheap cafe, on transport, at the market, on the beach, etc.
I think I answered the main questions. And I'm leaving. I'm leaving beautifully.
Just one or two years ago, the Internet was simply flooded with advertisements for some candy wrappers for 10-30% of the face value. You could come across such ads, for example, on Instagram, scrolling through the feed or watching stories. Or on Telegram, on various channels, in comments and even in private messages from unknown people. Most often from girls with model appearance or from serious uncles in elegant suits and expensive cars. And if the usual advertising of dubious offers is limited to this, then in this case it has flooded most social networks and websites.
TikTok, YouTube, various forums and the like. After all, they advertise some narrowly targeted goods or services, often the target audience can be in a specific place, like spinners or beautiful iPhone cases. And what interests everyone, what, as they say, is never too much. Yes, candy wrappers mean money, namely, advertising for the sale of money, no matter how strange it may sound, was found almost everywhere.
People were offered to buy a certain amount for only 10-30% of its face value. Roughly speaking, a person wants 100 thousand rubles, so in theory he throws these unknown people only 20 thousand, and they, in turn, give him his desired hundred in return. I think that you, by the way, with your opinions on such an offer are divided into two fronts. Some believe that this is a scam and they will not send anything, while others believe that this is simply not real money, but counterfeit.
And I don't know who those unique individuals from the third front are who thought that everything was clean here, but even such people will always turn out to be soft as skunks. And here is a situation where both are right, because some of the offers were pure scams, that is, deception, and the people who sent their real money received nothing in exchange. But another part of the ads concerns the sale of counterfeit money, which will be our topic today.
Well, what about the money? Counterfeiters. How do they make candy wrappers, that is, counterfeit money? Is it possible to pay with such money in stores and put it on a card? What prison term awaits those who get busted? And the most interesting thing about counterfeiters, how long do they live? Listen carefully, it will be entertaining.
Probably, many in childhood, paying attention to the poverty around them and the financial problems that adults face, naively wondered why it is impossible to simply print more money.
Having grown up, some people learned what inflation is and understood why it cannot be done. The other part still does not understand anything and lives in ignorance with dissonance, which still worries them, and which they can share with you at some drunken parties or in public transport complaining about the hard life. But there are those who went beyond boring theory and discussions on the topic of why it is impossible to print more money, and took this process into their own hands, and call these businessmen counterfeiters.
I think there is no need to explain what words this particular word is formed from, it is not difficult to guess, as well as to understand that since coins are focused in it, it was invented a long time ago, when banknotes were not yet used. In principle, it is logical. But few people know that counterfeiting coins for the sake of profit appeared simultaneously with the first metal money.
The oldest counterfeit money ever found is a copy of a silver coin from the sixth century BC on the Greek island of Aegina. The counterfeit is made of copper with a silver coating and very high technical execution. Initially, when money had a real value equal to the weight of gold, silver, copper contained in the coins, the main method was to issue counterfeit coins from cheaper alloys or smaller in size. In fact, money had just begun to be used and scammers immediately appeared.
Later in history, counterfeit money was issued even at the state level, with the aim of undermining the economy of a hostile power. One of the first mentions of fascist money at the state level is Napoleon's use of fascist Russian money in the war of 1812. Or, for example, Operation Bernhardt. This is a secret German operation for the mass production of counterfeit banknotes, mainly pounds sterling, which was in effect during World War II.
The original goal of the operation was the collapse of the English financial system by dropping counterfeit pounds from airplanes. A group of counterfeiters was created and within 18 months they managed to decipher and reproduce the structure of the paper, create plates and reproduce the encrypted numbering system of British banknotes. It did not come to the mass release of counterfeit pounds into circulation. In 1942, using prisoners in a concentration camp, they managed to print, according to various estimates, from 132 to 300 million counterfeit pounds.
The quality of the counterfeits was extraordinary. Experts could hardly distinguish them. The funds received were used to carry out secret operations, pay off agents of German intelligence, buy weapons on the black market and supply impronization groups. In general, it would be quite naive to claim that counterfeiting money by the state is a rare occurrence. According to various estimates, many large countries at one time or another secretly issued counterfeit money, both their own and foreign.
And they did it for various reasons, the details of which we will not go into today, because despite a few interesting historical facts that I voiced earlier, the topic of today's video concerns primarily modern counterfeiters who do this business not to defeat the enemy. Unless their enemy is poverty, because these guys just want a rich life. So, at the beginning of the video, I talked about candy wrapper ads that simply flooded the Internet a few years ago.
Now you can also stumble upon something similar, but the likelihood is much lower, since such ads have become more thoroughly checked. And given that the ads were on publicly available and well-known resources, one was intended mainly for users who, due to their computer literacy, will not be able to get into the Darknet. For this reason, all sales were mainly through Telegram. Yes, most of the ads were just a scam, but some actually sent the goods.
And here the question is how they did it, since there were two options.
The first is bookmarks. Yes, this is how they distribute not only illegal substances, but also counterfeit money, which is also illegal, of course. Yes, unlike cats, candy wrappers usually took up a little more space, but they are not suitcases, so they managed to hide them within the city, but most often they do this in a forest belt and send the client the coordinates.
The second option for distribution is mail. Yes, some particularly smart characters send counterfeits by mail, and others, no less smart, take these packages.
I think you can guess that in this case, the likelihood of being caught is much higher. It turns out that counterfeiters sell their goods on Telegram and the Darknet, and distribute them through bookmarks and mail. And before I tell you how counterfeit money is made and how long counterfeiters and their clients live, I have a very useful advertisement. Seriously, I advise you not to skip it, unless you have already seen it.
So, the main method of protecting banknotes from counterfeiting is the arms race principle. That is, the use of various means that make it extremely difficult at this stage of technology development to reproduce them outside of enterprises that have the right to produce genuine banknotes. Difficult.
To put it simply, progress does not stand still, and the guys are constantly trying to make such banknotes that will be extremely difficult to repeat. For example, they use special paper, fine mesh, small details in the image and watermarks, metallography, Orlov printing, microprinting, kip effect, color-changing image paint that develops in ultraviolet light, magnetic elements, image templates that are invisible to the eye, etc. Despite such a list of materials and technologies that are difficult at first glance, counterfeiters can repeat most of these points.
And this is where professionalism comes into play. There are those who cannot repeat even some details, but they do not care. They sell 100 thousand counterfeit rubles for only 5-10 thousand real ones, which in the end are usually foisted off not in banks and stores, but in the markets by some inattentive swindler, and so on. Roughly speaking, they do not deceive large enterprises and banks, but ordinary people, who are always the most pitiful. But not these guys.
And there are those who sell 100 thousand counterfeit rubles for, say, 50 thousand real ones, only half as much. Such wrappers are often of very good quality. They can be accepted in some small store with equipment, in grocery stores, and sometimes even ATMs accept them. The most popular question regarding counterfeit money is why counterfeiters sell this money and do not use it themselves? The answer is very simple. Even if you have high-quality counterfeits, you can be caught.
And it is worth noting that counterfeiting money has always been considered the most serious state crime in any country and is punishable to the fullest extent of the law. Therefore, it takes a lot of effort to catch people who produce and distribute counterfeit money. I will tell you a few such cases. For example, several years ago, the police of 13 countries, including Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Great Britain, etc. conducted more than 300 searches and arrested 235 people after shutting down a Darknet platform selling counterfeit money.
The large-scale operation began in the summer of 2018 when Austrian federal police tracked down and arrested the owner of a large Darknet resource where counterfeit money was sold. According to the investigation, the criminal printed counterfeit 10, 20 and 50 euro banknotes, and his printing shop was located in the city of Lioben. Before his arrest, the perpetrator managed to create and distribute more than 10,000 counterfeit bills.
Not 10 thousand euros, but 10 thousand notes from 10 to 50 euros. Although he accepted payments in cryptocurrency, he also kept track of all the postal addresses to which the counterfeit bills were eventually sent. When law enforcement officers seized all of the counterfeiter's equipment, a list of all of his recent customers was soon discovered, which was immediately handed over to Europol. As a result, law enforcement agencies, as I already said, conducted more than 300 searches of the customers on the list and found more than one and a half thousand counterfeit bills.
But since these were customers who bought the goods through the Darknet, it is not surprising that they found a lot of other interesting things. Cats, weapons, cryptocurrency mining equipment, bitcoins, a marijuana plantation, and another printing shop that was engaged in the production of counterfeit money in France. This is crazy. After that, Europol representatives said that this joint operation demonstrates that complete anonymity does not exist on the Darknet and the Internet.
If you are engaged in illegal activity online, be prepared for the fact that sooner or later the police will knock on your door. You might think that this was in Europe, where the police work properly and so on, there are no stash houses where the cops can put you in jail every day and earn themselves a baton on their shoulder straps and so on. Therefore, you might think that in the CIS countries, a business with counterfeit money could work. But let me tell you about a billion-ruble case.
A competitor of the Bank of Russia, which actively used IT technologies in its work, successfully printed and distributed more than 1 billion rubles. The counterfeits were of very high quality in Nizhny Novgorod, from where they were delivered to almost all regions of Russia through a secret network, using the Hydra darknet platform, when it was not yet blocked. The criminal organization included several dozen people, none of whom personally knew each other.
By the way, the Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed that this is not an ordinary case and there have been no similar cases in their practice. A criminal case under Part 3 of Article 186 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, that is, the production, storage, transportation or sale of counterfeit money or securities, was opened by the police of Tatarstan, where the first counterfeit bills were found. After that, counterfeit money similar to those seized in Kazan began to appear in many regions of Russia.
According to the employees of the Main Directorate for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Economic Development who participated in the operational activities, it was very difficult to document the activities of the members of this criminal group. For the purposes of conspiracy, all of its members communicated exclusively through HYDRA. The distribution of counterfeits was also carried out in a contactless manner through specially equipped hiding places. The law enforcement agency managed to get to the organizers of the underground business through several ordinary distributors. And from them the chain stretched to two 25-year-old Muscovites, a girl and a guy.
The latter, as the operatives found out, was the creator of online stores on the Hydra platform, through which the counterfeit money was sold, and according to the investigation, it was his peer who was engaged in it. Wholesale lots, that is, from 500 thousand rubles, went for 10-15% of the face value. But the main income came from small lots of 10 to 150 thousand rubles, which were in the greatest demand in the regions, and could be bought from counterfeiters for 30% of the face value.
After the buyer made a payment on the same Hydra, and exclusively with cryptocurrency, from Moscow using fake passports through a transport company, a batch of counterfeit money was sent to accomplices. And they, in turn, made caches in hiding places, usually in a deserted forest park area and transmitted the coordinates to buyers. The police were able to establish the identities of the organizers of the underground business and the direct manufacturers of counterfeit money only in the spring of this year.
During the search, two sets of printing equipment were seized from them, on which very high-quality counterfeit money was produced - color laser printers, laptops, banknote mock-ups, a laminator, threads for gluing into banknotes and blanks of coats of arms images. At the moment, it has already been established that the criminal group existed for about a year and during this time managed to carry out more than three thousand transactions for the sale of counterfeit money.
At the same time, not every detector could detect a counterfeit even in stores. In addition to the original article, that is, 186th Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, they were recently charged with committing a much more serious crime - organizing a criminal community or participating in it. Part one and part two of Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The defendants in this criminal case are several dozen manufacturers, distributors and buyers of counterfeit money, from almost three dozen Russian regions.
According to some sources, most of them, including the organizers, have already admitted their guilt, but even in this situation they face 15 years. Here is an example of how long counterfeiters live and I hope I have clearly explained that it is better not to get involved in this. The punishment for making counterfeit money has almost always been extremely strict. In the Middle Ages, in Europe, counterfeiters were boiled in boiling water or had molten metal poured down their throats, usually lead, since this is what counterfeit coins were usually made of.
In the Russian Empire, the punishment was also strict. For counterfeiting banknotes, those guilty were deprived of all legal status and exile to hard labor. Even in the 20th century in the USSR, making excess counterfeit coins or bills was punishable by death. After the collapse of the USSR, the death penalty for counterfeiting money was abolished in Russia. Currently, Article 186 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, that is, the production of excess counterfeit money or securities, provides for a punishment of 5 to 15 years of imprisonment.
Liability occurs if the person using counterfeit money knows that it is counterfeit, but tries to pass it off as real. At the same time, even if you did not know that it was a fake, you will still most likely be given a term, since you will be the ones to blame. Currently, a counterfeit banknote is easiest to find in places with intensive commodity turnover, for example, in a cheap cafe, on transport, at the market, on the beach, etc.
I think I answered the main questions. And I'm leaving. I'm leaving beautifully.
