Romania apprehended a man law enforcement called the world's best forger of high-security plastic banknotes.

The operation was part of a crackdown on a criminal gang allegedly counterfeiting cash previously thought to be almost impossible to accurately reproduce. Replicas of Romania's one-hundred-lei bill were so good they earned the nickname Super Leu.

The evolution of this type of fake since 2014 has been spectacular," the organized-crime unit said Wednesday in a statement. The gang's leader managed to produce the best forgeries in Romania's history and become the best counterfeiter of plastic banknotes in the world.

The polymer bills, introduced in 1999, are a source of pride for Romania's central bank because of the difficulty in faking them and because their durability means they last longer. A plunge in forgeries has also been welcomed by the Bank of England since it began switching to polymer notes in 2016. The bills have also proved more useful amid the Covid-19 pandemic, being more hygienic and helping to stem the spread of the virus.

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