ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish authorities confiscated about $271 million in fake U.S. $100 banknotes in a raid on an Istanbul printing press - the country's biggest counterfeit currency seizure in recent years, Hurriyet newspaper reported on Monday.
The raid was carried out on Friday in Istanbul's Esenyurt neighbourhood and five people were arrested, it said.
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