The new fiver: money laundering made easy?

The World Today Updated 26 November 2020 1 minute READ

On September 13 Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, marked the transition from paper to plastic currency by dipping one of the new £5 notes into a chicken curry to prove its washability. Here are five facts about folding money:

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