Wednesday, April 18, 2001, updated at 16:53(GMT+8)
China
Chinese Police Destroy Counterfeit Money Making Mints
Police in south China's Guangdong Province destroyed six illegal mints, used to make and trade counterfeit Chinese currency bank notes in a province-wide campaign to stamp out organized crimes, evil forces and criminal activities in the economy.
In that campaign, the police detained 61 suspects and seized finished and unfinished counterfeit Chinese bank notes with a face value of 126 million yuan, six printing machines and other tools and raw materials for printing fake Chinese bank notes, said sources from Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Public Security.
The police also smashed a den used for illegally printing VCD packaging papers in the campaign, said the sources.
Guangdong has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the country's reform and opening-up and witnessed tremendous progress in local economic development since China introduced the reform and opening-up drive in 1978.
Police in south China's Guangdong Province destroyed six illegal mints, used to make and trade counterfeit Chinese currency bank notes in a province-wide campaign to stamp out organized crimes, evil forces and criminal activities in the economy.