The document discusses the extensive issue of international fraud and forgery, highlighting the dismantling of a major counterfeiting network by the French financial investigation brigade. It covers various types of falsified documents, including identity cards and currency, and emphasizes the economic and security repercussions of such forgeries. The work provides both technical insights and narratives involving forgers and their victims across different contexts.

1. Fraud and forgery: international criminal traffic in false documents
By Pierre Delval
Paris, March 1998: the French Financial Investigation and Research Brigade dismantled a large network of
counterfeiters: identity cards, press cards, vehicle identification documents, banknotes, official cards for the
Ministries of the Interior and Defence, Social Security cards – even electricity bills!
Today, anything can be falsified: currency, postage stamps, cheques, credit cards, identity documents, driving
licences, records of civil status, scratch cards, casino tokens, gift certificates, etc.
Yet these forgeries provide fortunes to those who pass them on - and cause serious financial and economic
problems for both governments and companies, as well as problems of security (false passports, false
residency permits, etc). For the first time, one of the best experts in the security of fiduciary documents fully
explains the problem of forgery in a single volume: technical information is given, but also the adventures and
misadventures of forgers and their victims, from the central banks of the great powers to the terrorist
hideouts in the Lebanese Bekaa Valley.
Éditions Presses Universitaires de France - PUF, June 1998, Collection: International criminality,168 pages, ISBN-
10: 2130494382
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