The Russian Ministry of Home Affairs together with the Armenian Police suppressed the activities of an underground printing plant producing false money in Podmoskovie, Russia. As RIA Novosti was told at the chief department for the struggle against economic crimes, the plant belonged to Russian and Armenian citizens. 22 people were detained, 17 of them were further arrested. According to the source, another operation for detaining coiners was launched by law-enforcers in the Russian city of Krasnodar. Together with the Armenian colleagues they succeeded in preventing the activities of the criminal grouping engaged in producing false 1000-ruble banknotes. The initiators of the underground production - Armenian citizens Gevork Ghazarian and Eduard Minosian - were sentenced to 6,5 years of imprisonment.