This question remains unanswered from the moment in which the euro was born, 14 years ago. Nearly three decades of fraud warnings agencies and police forces had been slighted by the governing such high bank, which now seems ready to consider its possible elimination. And it also jihadist terrorists appreciate the benefits of this bill.
is given for granted that the ECB was sensitive to a request from countries like Germany, the Netherlands and Austria , claiming a ticket to high value because it was part of its monetary culture.
thus was born the 500 euro note, only surpassed in the world by 1000 francs Swiss francs (909 euros) and 10,000 Singapore dollars (66,357 euros). Already at the beginning of his birth (2002) voices predicted would become a tasty currency for criminals.
There was that too much time to elapse to detect its extensive use between Colombian drug traffickers. There was some compelling reason. one million euros in bills of 500 weigh 2.2 kilos, occupy a volume of three liters and can fit into a medium bag
police units were adding experience. In 2006, after the discovery of a huge financial scam in Spain with hundreds of thousands of victims, police entered the villa of one of the accused and found behind a false wall a bag with 12 million euros in 500 notes .
That was a record, but not the only one. In Portugal, the arrest of an Angolan general who had set up a foundation in Lisbon with unclear intentions, allowed to find a package of eight million, naturally 500 notes in one of his apartments.
One after another is happening operations with similar results to the most recent operation Emperor, also in Spain, directed by Chinese Gao Ping, where prosecutors said they were bleached between 800 and 1,200 million euros in four years . The first phase of washing was easy. Chinese drew money from Spain in his trips home to visit family
So many police operations, customs seizures or airports that nobody was surprised that, in 2010, the Bank of England recommended to entities not distribute 500 notes that, according to police reports, “90% of tickets sold in the UK were held by “.
the latest report from Europol on the subject dates from 2014 and comes to a similar conclusion: not all use is criminal, but it is established that all criminal organizations have it as their favorite currency.
the question, now, is that, due to the crisis, as well as attractive to criminals, the ticket 500 (and 200 euros as well) is becoming a safe haven: the rates at rock bottom and bags falling, keep money at home appears as a fairly considered choice
in the Spanish case, the data show how to build the golden years of brick (26.68% of the 500 notes in circulation in Europe in January 2007) continued an obvious fall.
But now another unique thing is observed: the 79.36% of the value of banknotes in circulation in Spain corresponds to EUR 500 200, an increase without like other countries in the eurozone, according to calculations union technicians Hacienda (Gethsa).
are we keeping tickets at home? Everything is possible with a ticket whose life story is so lacking in transparency.
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