{"id":499402,"date":"2025-12-01T09:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=499402"},"modified":"2025-12-01T09:40:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:40:55","slug":"defective-e500-banknotes-discovered-in-hrodna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/defective-e500-banknotes-discovered-in-hrodna","title":{"rendered":"Defective \u20ac500 Banknotes Discovered in Hrodna"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The State Committee of Forensic Examinations reported an unusual case during a banknote authenticity check. Two \u20ac500 banknotes of the 2002 series were submitted for examination. Their authenticity had raised doubts at a branch of a bank in Hrodna.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAccording to the conclusions of the forensic expert, the examined items were produced by the enterprise that manufactures this type of product, using regulated printing methods with protective elements.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Doubts about authenticity were caused by the absence of a kinegram and luminescence of certain images on the front and back sides, as well as the absence of part of the security thread.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Forensic experts established that the discrepancies in the banknotes were due to deviations from the technological process that occurred during production,\u201d<\/i> the committee said.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first such case. In 2021, experts also examined defective euro notes. A \u20ac50 banknote that a Hrodna resident attempted to deposit at a bank lacked a hologram. Experts determined that the money was genuine. The absence of a hologram may be caused by a manufacturing defect; another possibility is that criminals carefully removed the hologram for later use in counterfeiting.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the State Committee of Forensic Examinations also confirmed the authenticity of defective US $100 banknotes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-499399\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2wqrewfrregtrhgbtghsyhnj.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"766\" height=\"800\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-499400\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1sdvfdrfvdfrgthgth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"766\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Committee of Forensic Examinations reported an unusual case during a banknote authenticity check. Two \u20ac500 banknotes of the 2002 series were submitted for examination. Their authenticity had raised doubts at a branch of a bank in Hrodna. \u201cAccording to the conclusions of the forensic expert, the examined items were produced by the enterprise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":499401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/692d387cb668d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Defective \u20ac500 Banknotes Discovered in Hrodna"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}