The object of the crime of counterfeiting money is money. This "currency" includes RMB and foreign currency. Foreign currency refers to the currency circulating abroad, including the currencies of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, as well as foreign currencies convertible at home, such as US dollars and British pounds, and foreign currencies that are not convertible at home, such as rubles.
Due to the progress of science and technology and the rapid development of printing technology, the technology of counterfeit money is becoming more and more advanced, and almost all the technologies used by banknote printing companies are mastered by criminals. From today's anti-counterfeiting struggle, we know that the specific methods of counterfeiting currency mainly include:
1. Description; The so-called description of counterfeit money refers to the use of painting techniques to draw counterfeit money by imitating the words, graphics and colors of real money.
2. rubbing; Rubbing refers to the use of liquid immersion and external force to transfer the words, images and colors on real money to other papers, thus making counterfeit money.
3. copy; Copying refers to copying counterfeit money with a color copier.
4. photocopying; Photocopying is usually a transmission copy with photographic sensitive paper. After development and fixing, the front and back sides are bonded together and then colored.
5. Plate making and printing; Plate-making printing refers to counterfeit money printed by hand or machine engraving, photographing or electronic scanning with large, medium and small automatic or semi-automatic micro printers. This kind of counterfeit money has high quality, large quantity, rapid diffusion and great influence and harm. Machine-made counterfeit money can be divided into machine-made offset counterfeit money and gravure counterfeit money. The counterfeit money forged by criminals is mainly machine-made offset printing counterfeit money. Compared with real money, it feels smoother, which is the most important symbol of counterfeit money and the most important means to identify this kind of counterfeit money, that is, touching it by hand.
Legal basis: Article 280 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) includes the crime of forging, altering, buying and selling official documents, certificates and seals of state organs; Crime of stealing, robbing or destroying official documents, certificates and seals of state organs; Crime of forging seals of companies, enterprises, institutions and people's organizations; Crime of forging, altering or buying or selling resident identity documents. The actor bought it knowing that it was a forged or altered official document, certificate or seal of a state organ. Although its subjective purpose is different from that of forgers, it objectively cooperates with the criminal acts of forging and altering official documents, certificates and seals of state organs. Subjectively, they want to forge or alter the official documents, certificates and seals of state organs, so they have a common criminal intention.