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The E-Sylum: Volume 14, Number 45, October 30, 2011, Article 24

BANKNOTES WORTH MORE WHEN TORN IN TWO

Never underestimate the power of potential profits. A woman in Czechoslovakia discovered a loophole that enabled her to bank a sure-fire profit by TEARING MONEY UP. Hmmmm. -Editor

A Czech bank clerk went on a banknote-ripping spree to take advantage of a change in the law that allowed her to easily earn a 25-percent bonus on her deposit, the police said on Thursday.

"The woman first withdrew 440,000 koruna (17,700 euros, $24,800) from her account. She asked for 88 used 5,000-koruna banknotes," Prague police spokeswoman Eva Kropacova told AFP.

Using helpers, the woman then tore the banknotes into two unequal parts and took the smaller pieces to banks all over Prague to swap them for real money.

"She knew that she would get 25 percent of the total value of the damaged banknote before a law change that took effect in July this year," Kropacova said.

She held on to the larger pieces of the ripped-up notes until the new law came into force.

Under the new rules, bringing the Czech Republic into line with the rest of the European Union, she got the total value of the banknote provided she handed in at least half of it, Kropacova explained.

The 46-year-old thus made a profit of 1,250 koruna on each banknote, or a total of 110,000 koruna, before she was arrested last week on charges of fraud.

To read the complete article, see: Czech woman fools law, earns big by ripping up banknotes (www.thenewage.co.za/33348-1020-53-Czech_woman_fools
_law,_earns_big_by_ripping_up_banknotes)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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