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Counterfeit money in Jalisco is big business

Since 2010, the Bank of Mexico (Banxico) removed 195,294 counterfeit banknotes from circulation in Jalisco valued at 56,894,810 pesos.

Although 2013 is documented with the most seized, of 10,107 units of 500 pesos in Guadalajara, so far this year they have located, in the same municipality, 1,994 pieces of the same denomination.

One of those affected by this practice, Alan Orlando, said that after selling a bicycle for two thousand pesos, he wanted to pay for his drinks at a convenience store with a 500-peso fake bill that the buyer gave him. However, the . . .

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