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Workers were busy testing and mixing printing inks while two production lines were running at full speed.

Police officers in Huizhou, in south China's Guangdong Province, examine the paper used for counterfeiting 100-yuan banknotes, on September 24, 2015. [Photo: chinanews.com]

 

They were equipped with walkie-talkie but were caught unaware when police suddenly broke in.

This is what police officers saw when they raided a major secret counterfeiting banknote site hidden in a metal and plastic factory in Boluo county of Huizhou in eastern part of Guangdong province on early morning of Sept 17.

The small workshop, which was installed with sound insulating equipment, stretched over 60 square meters. A small door about 130 centimeters high and less than 1 meter wide was found behind filing cabinets in an office of the factory.

Huang Shouying, director of economic crime investigation bureau under Guangdong provincial department of public security, recalled busting the biggest fake banknote production case in the Chinese mainland since 1949 on Thursday.

Police seized fake banknotes with a total face value of more than 210 million yuan ($33.07 million) after raiding two production bases in Huizhou and in other five Guangdong cities and Sichuan province on Sept 17, Huang told a press conference on Thursday.

A total of 29 suspects, including the gang leaders, have been detained and four printing machines, many films and related equipment and semi-finished products have been seized after the raids on the two counterfeiting bases in Huizhou.

He said the crackdown has dealt a heavy blow to the banknote counterfeiting operation in Guangdong province which borders Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions.

Gao Weidong, deputy director of Huizhou city bureau of public security bureau, said more than 400 police officers took part in the special operation in Huizhou on Sept 17.

And one officer was injured during the raid.

"The special operation was launched after nine months of investigation," Gao said.

"The large amount of high simulation fake money might have been in circulation if the underground production sites in Huizhou had been busted two to three days later, as production of most of the fake banknotes had been completed," he added.

Cen Daoai, vice-president of Guangzhou Branch of People's Bank of China, said Guangdong, one of the country's economic powerhouses, has been the main theatre in the fight against fake banknote production in the mainland for decades.

"Guangdong police has busted more than 60 fake banknote production sites since 2009," Cen said.

He urged banks and other financial organizations across Guangdong to continue to expand their co-operation with police in the fight against counterfeiting banknotes in the months ahead to curb the illegal operations.

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