A German man has admitted buying fake euro banknotes on the dark web after being stopped by traffic police over a dead headlight. After searching the car, police found bags of marijuana, counterfeit euro banknotes, a knife and one of the defendants, who later testified against himself.
At a traffic stop involving a dead headlight on the defendant's car, a 20-year-old intoxicated from Solinin, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, admitted that one of his passengers had given him a joint in exchange for taking him to an unidentified person. Location. Police pulled both the main defendant and his passenger, a 21-year-old friend they once visited, from the vehicle and carried out a thorough examination of the contents of the vehicle.
Inside, according to the report, police found "a lot" of marijuana packed for resale under the passenger seat of the car. The passenger admitted that he had brought marijuana with him to the main defendant's car. In the central console of the car, the police found a pack of counterfeit banknotes for 20 euros and banknotes for 50 euros. None of the defendants initially recognized ownership of the notes. After a period of questioning, the main defendant admitted that he had ordered the recordings from a dark web seller in Austria. He even gave investigators the name of a dark web salesman from whom he purchased counterfeit banknotes. In court, he explained that he had been buying counterfeit banknotes from the seller for months or more. The supplier charged only one quarter of the face value of the banknote.
The court did not believe the defendant's assertion that he had never used the recordings or entered them into circulation. First of all, because of the confession in which the defendant confessed to making numerous purchases of counterfeit banknotes. There were more records in the defendant's home than the police found and the car combined.
The co-accused faces drug charges in addition to similar charges of counterfeiting; law enforcement found materials used to distribute drugs and similar counterfeit euro banknotes in the home of one of the defendants.
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