Superdollar

The term super dollars (or even super touch ) was coined when U.S. intelligence agencies around 1994 met with fake banknotes of such quality that they were nearly indistinguishable from the original. It concerns the 100 - dollar bills, which were made ​​on very high quality paper with high print quality. After extensive investigations it is assumed that they originate from the Office 39 of the North Korean government.

The U.S. government accuses the regime of North Korea to have fabricated this counterfeit money for two reasons and circulated, on the one hand from Devisennot and on the other hand, in order to undermine the U.S. and its monetary system. The North Korean government denied this but back as a pure hostile propaganda of the West.

The production of these counterfeit notes to North Korean defectors, according to his state matter of the highest priority. To bring them internationally circulated, one uses the embassy in Moscow, the largest embassy of North Korea. There are two methods:

• Almost all diplomats from North Korea to travel via Moscow abroad. There, they get their needed foreign exchange equal parts of each genuine and counterfeit U.S. dollars.
• Ambassador in Moscow to have there established contacts with members of organized crime in Russia and former members of the KGB. The former intelligence official in turn used their connections to communist parties in Western Europe in order to smuggle the Super Dollars in western currency markets.

In this context, Seán Garland was striking, chairman of the Irish Workers Party and senior member of the Official IRA. He is alleged to have smuggled the counterfeit money from Russia to Ireland, to wash it from there in the UK. He was arrested in October 2005 in Belfast, meanwhile, questioned the judicial authorities of the United States a request for extradition for foreign exchange offense. The working in the UK part of the money launderers ring has now been smashed by British authorities and its members and accomplices convicted.

Another starting point for counterfeit banknotes is Macau. Portugal conceded that time North Korea trade privileges one, since then, has North Korea Macau as a trade base. Residents of Macao banks to be involved in the spread of counterfeit money, the U.S. authorities imposed because of punitive measures against Banco Delta Asia SARL.

The thesis that the super dollars come from North Korea, is not without controversy. It is argued that North Korea did not have a suitable press. Some counterfeit money investigators suspect because of the security, the quality of the forgery and the required amounts of special printer ink used that super dollars would be made ​​in the secret printing the CIA to finance covert operations abroad.

The pressure of counterfeit notes with the aim of weakening enemy states, has already been applied in the time of National Socialism during the Second World War by the German Reich. So in the context of large quantities of counterfeit Bernhard Action pound notes were produced.