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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

                                            WAITO Foundation

                            Address: Villa Sise - Chemin du Grand-Montfleury, 48
                                    City: Versoix, Canton of Geneva, 1290
                                            Country: Switzerland
                                          Telephone: +41 22 566 8730
                                             Fax: +41 22 566 8740
                                 Website: http://www.waitofoundation.org

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  • 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 WAITO Foundation Address: Villa Sise - Chemin du Grand-Montfleury, 48 City: Versoix, Canton of Geneva, 1290 Country: Switzerland Telephone: +41 22 566 8730 Fax: +41 22 566 8740 Website: http://www.waitofoundation.org