Masterminds 2.13 Making Millions
Making Millions
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Masterminds 2.13 Making Millions
Masterminds 2.13 Making Millions
Steven Jory was the most successful counterfeiter England had ever seen. Starting in the late nineties, he flooded the British market with fifty million pounds. A master of counter surveillance and isolating his accomplices from each other, Jory turned his fake money empire into real millions for himself.
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Stephen Jory 'Lavender Hill Mob' counterfeiter
Stephen Jory, counterfeiter and writer: born London November 24th 1949; married (one son, one daughter); died Stow cum Quy, Cambridgeshire May 5th 2006.
Stephen Jory was Britain's most prolific counterfeiter. Over the years he made and lost fortunes and was what police would describe as an "old school" villain. Born in Hackney in 1949 and brought up in north London, after leaving Owen's grammar school in Islington Jory entered the criminal fraternity, he said, through his "own choice".
After several spells in prison for perfume offenses, Jory moved up the criminal ladder and began to make money, literally. He bought a printing press and set about creating a clandestine mint in the garage of a large house in a secluded part of Essex. After initial problems (the watermark of the Queen on the first batch of notes appeared to show her with a beard), the operation became extremely successful.
Jory and his accomplices had already flooded Britain with fakes when in 1998 the police caught the gang whom they had nicknamed the "Lavender Hill Mob". Although Jory admitted to a charge of having produced £50m-worth of counterfeit £20 notes, the real figure is probably much higher - his notes were so convincing that they fooled UV counterfeit detectors and in some places were redistributed through the banking system. After his incarceration, the Bank of England was forced to change the design of the twenty-pound note in order to add extra security features.
Whilst on remand at HMP Winchester, Jory began writing an autobiography, which was published first as Funny Money in 2002 and in paperback in 2005 as Loadsamoney: the true story of the world's largest ever counterfeiting ring. It was not his first book - during a previous spell in prison he had written a novel called Supergrass, which he printed through his own Pirate Publications.
At the time of his death, he was working on a novel about his exploits in fake perfume, to be entitled "The Perfume Pirate" and had just finished writing a film script based on Funny Money.
Source Read entire Obit The Independent UK
Gang guilty of flooding Britain with fake notes
Gang guilty of flooding Britain with fake notes Thursday 23 December 1999
Members of a gang responsible for flooding the country with an estimated £50m in fake notes were convicted yesterday of taking part in one of Britain's biggest counterfeiting scams.
The crime ring was responsible for two-thirds of all the fake currency in circulation between 1993 and 1998, according to the police and the Bank of England.
The fake English and Scottish £20 and £50 notes were of an extremely high quality and included a foil strip and a watermark of the Queen's head. One of the few flaws was that the words "Bank of England" at the top of each note were printed flat rather than raised.
The court was told that the fake notes were printed on a sophisticated four-colour printing press at Mainstone's home in Upminster, Essex. Mainstone, an "outwardly respectable" businessman who owned a printing company, worked with gang members Stephen Jory, 50, Bernard Farrier, 67, and Martin Watmough, 46, to produce vast amounts of counterfeit currency, which was distributed through underworld contacts.
Source Independent
Funny Money Steve Jory's Autobiography
Funny Money [Hardcover]
Stephen Jory Stephen Jory has a secret; a secret he guards jealously. For 20 years, Stephen Jory was Britain's most high-profile counterfeiter. Throughout his career, he flooded the UK with five billion pounds worth of "funny money". In this autobiography, Stephen reveals how he managed to dodge the cops, the crooks, and two big gun-toting Russians.
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