The court did not consider it possible that the woman had withdrawn counterfeit money from the Greek bank.
The woman took slips of paper to the bank, which she claimed were 50 euro bills destroyed by the earthquake. Police
A woman from Pori went to the bank in October 2021 with 65 pieces of paper. He claimed them as damaged 50 euro bills.
The woman tried to get the bank to exchange them for new notes. The value of the notes would have been 3,250 euros.
The notes delivered by the woman ended up from the bank via the Bank of Finland to the forensic laboratory of the Central Criminal Police. There they found a lot of flaws.
Surprised by the criminal report
According to the woman, the banknotes were destroyed in the earthquake in Greece.
He said that he had withdrawn cash to buy the camera from different parts of Greece. The price of the camera was agreed to be 3,000 euros.
While the woman was at the camera seller’s house, an earthquake struck. The woman and the seller hurriedly left and the money packed in the bag remained in the house.
The woman later returned to the house, where a mess awaited her. The bag had melted and the bills and other items were a mess as strong cleaning agents, inks and fixatives had spilled out of the broken bottles. The bills had turned dark.
After getting home, the woman put the bills in water to soak, but the dark color did not go away.
Because of the wasted money, he contacted the bank and delivered the money there.
It came as a surprise to the woman that a criminal complaint was filed.
Only the size was right
The woman said that she tried to clean the “banknotes” by soaking them. Police
According to the forensic laboratory, the pieces of paper the woman brought to the bank resembled genuine 50 euro bills in size. In other respects, there were no indications of the characteristics of genuine euro banknotes.
The slips of paper did not have the printing ink of a genuine banknote or its remnants. They lacked a hologram or traces of glittery ink. There was no plastic safety window or opening. According to the laboratory’s statement, no thickness variation caused by the watermark was detected.
They also had no security wire inside the paper or any sign of it.
The woman wondered after the forensic laboratory’s statement that she had withdrawn possibly counterfeit money from the Greek bank.
Got fined
The district court of Satakunta did not consider the woman’s claims possible.
The court considered that the woman knew that the notes were not genuine. According to the court, the woman sought financial gain when she tried to mislead the bank.
The act remained an attempt when the alleged notes were submitted for investigations.
The district court convicted a woman born in 1960 of attempted fraud.
The sentence was 55 daily fines, of which he had to pay 330 euros.
The woman appealed her sentence to the Court of Appeal in Vaasa, but withdrew her appeal. The judgment of the district court therefore remained in force.
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