Some Notable counterfeiters
Anatasios Arnaouti, a British counterfeiter of more than £2.5 million in fake money, sentenced in 2005.
Frank Bourassa, a Canadian counterfeiter, that set up a secret money printing operation capable of printing US$250 million in counterfeit bills. He spent a month and a half in a Canadian jail in 2014, in agreement to not be extradited to the U.S. for prosecution.
Alves dos Reis, who by the end of 1925 had managed to introduce escudo banknotes worth £1,007,963 at 1925 exchange rates into the Portuguese economy, which was equivalent to 0.88% of Portugal's nominal GDP at the time.
Arthur Williams, imprisoned in 2007 for counterfeiting the United States one hundred-dollar bill.
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