Anatasios Arnaouti (born July 21, 1967) is a criminal from Manchester, England who led one of the most ambitious ever forgery operations before being jailed in 2005. Events 356 BC - Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. In the sociological field, crime is the breach of a rule or Law for which some governing authority or force may ultimately prescribe a Punishment England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Forgery is the process of making adapting or imitating objects statistics or documents (see False document) with the intent to deceive.
At the time of the arrest of Arnaouti and his accomplices, police seized over £2. The Pound Sterling ( symbol £; ISO code: GBP) subdivided into 100 pence (singular penny) is the Currency 5million worth of counterfeit £10 notes and $3. A counterfeit is an imitation that is made usually with the intent to deceptively represent its content or origins Sterling banknotes are the Banknotes of the United Kingdom and British Islands, denominated in pounds sterling (symbol £ The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been 5 million worth of counterfeit $100 notes, but the total number of notes produced is unknown as their printing operation had been in production for several years, and was capable of producing tens of thousands of notes each day. The United States one hundred-dollar bill ($100 is a denomination of United States currency. The extent of the crime was considered so severe that it could have compromised the UK and U.S. economies. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An economy is the realized social system of production exchange distribution and consumption of goods and services of a country or other area
In Operation Gait, the UK National Crime Squad working jointly with the US Secret Service infiltrated and uncovered the operation in December 2002. The National Crime Squad ( NCS) was a British police organisation which dealt mainly with organised and major crimes Simultaneously a BBC undercover documentary team also infiltrated the operation and secretly filmed the printing presses in operation, providing information on the gangs' distribution methods which the police had not uncovered. Although the notes produced by the gang were not perfect, the gangs' principal difficulty was not in producing the notes but in getting them into circulation, leading the gang into carelessness in finding people to buy the counterfeits, which is how the BBC found the gang.
On June 14, 2005, Arnaouti was sentenced to 8 years in prison for conspiracy to make counterfeit currency, conspiracy to pass counterfeit currency and conspiracy to handle stolen goods. Events 1276 - While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the