Undated handout photo issued by the National Crime Agency of a Heidelberg Platten press that was shown in court during the trial of four men who were today jailed at Birmingham Crown Court for conspiracy to produce counterfeit notes. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Monday January 13, 2014. The two Karra brothers used their printing firm's Christmas and New Year break to churn out ?1.2 million worth of fake banknotes. The trial heard Amrit Karra, of Broadway North, Walsall; Prem Karra, of Brookhouse Road, Walsall; Kumar, of Clarkes Lane, West Bromwich; and Mahey, of Cranbrook Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, even worked through the night to print fake ?10 notes with a face value of at least ?1.27 million. Amrit Karra, aged 45, Prem Karra, 43, Kumar, 40, and Mahey, 44, used specialist paper, inks and foil to run off the near-perfect forgeries at a print-works in Hockley, Birmingham. See PA story COURTS Notes. Photo credit should read: National Crime Agency/PA WireNOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%Two brothers who used their printing firm's Christmas and New Year break to churn out £1.2 million worth of fake banknotes have both been jailed for seven years.
Apparently respectable businessmen Amrit and Prem Karra acted as "masterminds and architects" of the highly-sophisticated counterfeiting operation, Birmingham Crown Court heard.
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