Banknote Counterfeiting Phenomenon in Poland

Remigiusz Lewandowski

doi:10.1163/15718174-bja10008

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Article

Title

Banknote Counterfeiting Phenomenon in Poland

Authors

Remigiusz Lewandowski (WBN) ^{[ 1 ][ 5.3 ][ P ]}

^{[ 1 ]} Instytut Studiów Strategicznych, Wydział Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego, Akademia Sztuki Wojennej | ^{[ P ]} employee

Scientific discipline (Law 2.0)

[5.3] Security studies

Year of publication

2020

Published in

European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice

Journal year: 2020 | Journal volume: vol. 28 | Journal number: Issue 3

Article type

scientific article

Publication language

english

Keywords

PL

Banknoty
Bezpieczeństwo finansowe
Bezpieczeństwo narodowe
Fałszerstwo
Modernizacja
Pieniądz
Polska
Przestępczość

Abstract

EN The paper presents the phenomenon of banknote counterfeiting in Poland and a selection of methods used against this type of crime. It shows that the number of counterfeit banknotes in Poland is much lower than in the eurozone countries. Moreover, a share of counterfeit Polish zloty banknotes significantly dropped in 2011 to the level of 7.6 PPM and between 2015-2018 to the level of 2.6-2.7 PPM. This decline can be associated with increased law enforcement (elimination of a large criminal group of counterfeiters in 2001) and the Polish zloty banknotes upgrade in 2014 and 2016, which introduced a set of new security features further discussed in this paper. This leads to the conclusion that regular currency modernization, introducing new security features as well as law enforcement activities are an effective anti-counterfeit method.

Date of online publication

29.09.2020

Pages (from - to)

252 - 279

DOI

10.1163/15718174-bja10008

URL

https://brill.com/view/journals/eccl/28/3/article-p252_252.xml

Ministry points / journal

70.0

Ministry points / journal in years 2017-2021

70.0