N.S. RCMP, border agents seize more than $100,000 in counterfeit Canadian cash

Josh Hoffman · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 12, 2025 4:08 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

More than $100,000 of counterfeit Canadian wealth has been seized by authorities arsenic portion of an probe that began successful Quebec and led authorities to a location successful Cape Breton, RCMP say. 

The Canada Border Services Agency notified Nova Scotia RCMP aft intercepting packages shipped to Canada from China astatine Mirabel airport in Quebec and a processing installation successful Mississauga, Ont., successful January. 

The archetypal bundle contained counterfeit holographic stickers that resembled the information strips connected Canadian currency and the 2nd bundle had a assortment of denominations totalling roughly $30,000 successful counterfeit currency, said an RCMP news merchandise Wednesday.  

Police said some packages were destined for an code successful Glace Bay, N.S. 

Mounties and Cape Breton Regional Police officers executed a hunt warrant astatine a Glace Bay residence on Feb. 11 and recovered about $70,000 successful counterfeit money, RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Mitch Thompson told CBC News.

A fig of different items considered "instruments" of counterfeiting, specified arsenic physics devices, were recovered astatine the location on with a rifle, Thompson said.

The probe is ongoing and charges are expected to beryllium laid soon, helium said.

RCMP encourage people accepting currency to verify its authenticity by checking the information features connected the bills. 

Counterfeit wealth whitethorn not look similar a important contented to everyone, Thompson said, but it tin person antagonistic effects connected individuals and businesses due to the fact that they can't beryllium reimbursed if they unknowingly receive fake slope notes.

"These businesses are not lone retired the merchandise that they are providing people, but they're besides retired the income for that product," Thompson said. "So it's benignant of similar a treble whammy for them."