PROTECTIVE HOLOGRAMS IN BANKNOTES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: THE WAYS OF IMITATION
Article is devoted to topical issues of a criminalistic research of the bank notes, securities and documents provided with means of holographic protection. In article aspects the problems of determination of authenticity of banknotes of the European Union based on identification and studying of the most widespread ways of imitation of protective holograms are considered. On the basis of the analysis of these ways of a fake revealed in the territory of Republic of Belarus, the CIS countries and Western Europe the modern most often found ways of imitation of protective holograms are allocated and systematized, descriptions and illustrations of their most distinctive signs are given. Features of a criminalistic expert research of holograms are reflected.