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By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Laurent Belsie

February 17, 1983

Canadian police seized about $1.5 million in counterfeit US hundred-dollar bills and arrested five men in a raid on a Montreal printing shop. A police inspector said counterfeiting US currency seemed to be a trend, probably because the market for Canadian money is smaller.