Fake banknotes that are revealed in Russia, spoiled, their quality is such that the fake can be detected by the naked eye. About this in an interview with Russian Gazeta, Mikhail Alekseev Central Bank said.
According to him, there are really good for fakes of cash bills with the advantage of 200 and 2000 rubles, recently introduced into circulation, was not at all, and those that managed to find were printed on the printer.
In general, a million banknotes in circulation accounts for only seven fakes. In the UK, Alekseev noticed, the same indicator is equal to 112 banknotes, and in the eurozone – 23.
Nevertheless, the official pointed out that the modernization of the banknote series seems to be necessary. The technologies of fakes are improving, and the skills of fraudsters grow with them.
In the same interview, Alekseev, who is a curator of cash circulation in the Central Bank, spoke about the new design for bills worth 100 rubles. Color gamut banknotes will not change, but the shade will be different.
before that it was said that on the new 100-ruble bills there are images of the objects of Krasnaya Square, the Park “Charger”, the Shukhovaya Tower and the building of Moscow State University on the Sparrow Mountains in Moscow. In 2022, they will appeal, and then the Central Bank will take the new design of the banknote with a denomination of 5000 and 1000 rubles.