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BELGRADE - A group trying to smuggle between 5-6 million fake dinars (Yugoslav national currency) from Hungary into Yugoslavia, within the special war waged against this country, was caught on Wednesday, Federal Information Secretary Goran Matic has said.
Matic told a press conference for foreign and domestic journalists that the eight-member group had been carrying excellent copies of dinars "which cannot be the work of amateurs due to the high-quality paper used."
The counterfeiters used special paper which is not on public sale and is used solely for printing money, shares, bonds and cheques, and whose quality is somewhat better than that officially used for the Yugoslav dinar because it has more protective devices incorporated into its texture, Matic said.
Matic stated that this is an integral part of all aggressions, political and economic pressures and everything to which Yugoslavia has been exposed by the NATO countries.
Matic said that about 500,000 fake dinars had recently been sent into Yugoslavia from Republika Srpska (RS) and that there "is proof and indications that Prime Minister Milorad Dodik coordinated this and other such actions."
Matic set out that all these actions aim to break up Yugoslavia as a continuation of the aggression from outside and with aid from within the country reflected in rumours about the forthcoming "spiralling inflation" spread by Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic, certain media, a part of the opposition supported by NATO - Allaince for Changes and the Group of 17.
All these actions represent a monetary attack on Yugoslavia and the imposition of such exchange relations which could destabilize the situation, Matic said adding that this is an act of interference into the internal affairs of a country.