During the first 9 months of 2024, the Bulgarian National Bank has put an additional 11 million 100-Leva banknotes into circulation in the country. At the beginning of the year, there were more than 131 million 100-Leva bills in circulation..
After many years of work, the General Directorate for Combating Organised Crime (GDBOP) has uncovered a criminal group in Shumen that was producing extremely high quality counterfeit banknotes, Commissioner Boyan Raev, Deputy Director of the GDBOP, told a..
A total of 679 children from all across Bulgaria took part in the national children's drawing contest "My Money". The young artists, aged up to 12, were tasked to design a banknote of an existing or imaginary currency, its..
A man and a woman have been detained on charges of manufacturing counterfeit euros and dollar bills and ID documents. The two worked at a university in Sofia, where the man worked as a printer on an employment contract. Authorities declined to specify..
The European Central Bank has announced that the new 50 euro banknotes, with the word “euro” written in Cyrillic script enter circulation on 4 April. The banknotes are being replaced so as to reinforce the level of protection against..
