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SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1990

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FOLLOWING ARE THE RESULTS OF TODAY'S AUCTION:

$

EG1822 6,200 BR407 1,000 BH5039

EG182

16,000 AX632

6,500

AE2229 12,000

EG986 5,000

EE8002

3,500

AJ6111

3,000

EH 196

2,500

EG740

1,000

BB216 7,000 EF1620 3,000 EG443 1,000 FF3862 1,000 EG987 9,500

EH7770

3,000

BK5658

EJ566

1,000

EH325

4,500

EE5080

AD551

1,500

EH165 1,000 EE8660 1,500 EF629 2,500 EH7080 1,000 AP325 5,000

EH5136 1,000

EH315 1,000

EG6696 4,000

CD107 8,000 EE8001 2,500

EG220

10,000

CD2263

3,000

AA863 35,000

EG623 4,500

EF3386

1,500

BM3832

2,500

EH280 3,500

EH1386 2,500

EF2305 1,000

EG423

EG205

1,000

FG5666

EE6119 3,000

AK415 8,000

EG1216

1,500

EG143

1,500

EF172 1,000

EG730 4,000

EE7749

EG119

9,000

AZ2599

1,000

EE6377

2,000

EH6726 1,000

EG201 2,500

EH 4489

1,000

EH177 5,500

CP219

3,500

EH902 3,500

BB107 8,000

EH905

1,500

EF316 3,000

EG817

8,000

EG4489 3,500

EG3286

1,000 EG820 4,000

EF8616 1,500 EH8821 1,500 AA1118 24,000

SUCCESSFUL BIDDERS WERE REQUIRED TO PAY BY CHEQUE IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE BIDDING. THE NUMBERS EH5039,. EE7749, EE5080, EG423, BK5658 AND EG5666 WERE WITHDRAWN AND DEPOSITS TOTALLING $6,000 WERE FORFEITED TO THE TOTAL REALISED.

THE NUMBERS AUCTIONED WILL BE ASSIGNED ONLY то VEHICLES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE SUCCESSFUL BIDDERS WITHIN 12 MONTHS OF THE DATE OF AUCTION.

TODAY'S SALE, THE 152ND ORGANISED BY THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SINCE MAY 1973, BROUGHT THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR CHARITY REALISED SO FAR TO $102,620,505.

POLICE FIGHT AGAINST COUNTERFEIT BANKNOTES, CREDIT CARDS

* * * * * *

COMPLICATED BUILT-IN SECURITY FEATURES IN LOCAL BANKNOTES HELPED TREMENDOUSLY IN THE FIGHT AGAINST COUNTERFEIT BANKNOTES.

HAVE

CURRENCY HAD

THESE SOPHISTICATED SECURITY FEATURES OF LOCAL MADE COUNTERFEITING PROHIBITIVELY EXPENSIVE ΤΟ CRIMINALS, TO DETECTIVE SENIOR INSPECTOR, POLICE COMMERCIAL CRIME MR IVAN HO SAI-LEUNG.

WHICH

ACCORDING BUREAU (CCB),

FOLLOWING THE NEUTRALISATION IN 1986 OF A MAJOR SPECIALISED IN COUNTERFEITING LOCAL BANKNOTES DENOMINATION, THE BUREAU HAD SINCE COME ACROSS NO

SYNDICATE OF LARGE SIMILAR OPERATION.

"WHAT WE HAVE NOW ARE MOSTLY NUISANCE FORGERY OF DONE BY INDIVIDUALS," MR HO SAID.

INFLATION, MEANWHILE, ALSO BROUGHT IN A WELCOME FOR ANTI-COUNTERFEIT AND FORGERY INVESTIGATORS, HE NOTED.

BANKNOTES

SIDE-EFFECT

/INFLATION, THOUGH