- Title: Behind The Crime 3
- Date: 1st July 2004
- Summary: With criminal counterfeiting on the rise,and no shortage of people to exploit the system,Behind The Crime: Loadsamoney explores the growing problem of illegal forgery. For years criminals have made millions of pounds from items ranging from forged bank notes to fake perfume,costing a fortune in lost revenue. Wayne Sallans and Stephen Jory are two such men who have dedicated most of their lives to the illicit art of counterfeiting. From a young age,Sallans was always on the lookout for some extra money,and became known as the 'schoolboy pirate' after he began to rent and duplicate videos from local stores. As a 16-year-old,he now claims to have been making up to ÌøåÀå?300-a-week. Sallans moved up in his trade,buying his own rental store that he secretly used to mass-produce pirated films. As the size of his scam increased,industry watchdogs were soon alerted to his operation. Loadsamoney interviews both Sallans,and the men responsible for stopping his video piracy business. After eventually raiding his rental shop,authorities uncovered a secret room with stacks of video recorders all making pirate copies of popular Disney movies. The documentary reveals how common such piracy is,although authorities were shocked at the high quality of Sallans' copies,making it difficult to distinguish them from the genuine article. He and his helpers once made a football from ÌøåÀå?25,000 of notes and kicked it round a street. Sallans was finally caught by film industry watchdogs and jailed for three years,then the longest sentence of its kind,for fraudulent use of the Disney trademark. He now runs a straight business but misses the buzz of his time as a big-money criminal counterfeiter. One of the hardest things to counterfeit is the nation's currency,but master forger Stephen Jory did it for four years under the noses of police in a scam so big that in 1999 it was a factor in the Bank of England's re-design of the ÌøåÀå?20 note. During a four-year spree he printed an estimated total of fifty million pounds. Jory,who'd already served prison sentences as one of the world's top producers of fake perfume,went into forging banknotes to pay off gangland loan sharks and ended up running off phoney notes to a face value of at least ÌøåÀå?50 million on a hidden printing press which police pursued for years. After an unsuccessful attempt to fake a Scottish twenty-pound note Jory finally managed to produce an almost perfect British version. Jory recounts how he faked the notes' watermark,metal strip,and appearance,and how counterfeit cash is distributed. He explains how 'passers' run a clothes iron over notes to age them instantly before trying to spend them. When first caught,Jory got away with a short prison term as an underling rather than the mastermind but finally,due to one detective's single-minded pursuit of him,was jailed for eight years. One of his associates had let him down when,instead of burning the telltale printing waste,he'd kept it to have a few extra twenties to spend. Police made the link to Jory and then to the secret press,which they found in a purpose-built workshop at an isolated Essex house. Through interviews with family and the detectives who helped convict Jory,Loadsamoney explores the duel between police and counterfeiters as both go head to head over their illegal produce. Detective Paul Wright,the man who eventually helped convict Jory of monetary forgery,tells how despite their opposing roles,both men had a mutual respect for one another. Loadsamoney delves into the murky world of counterfeiting,looking at the lengths some people will go to in order to cheat the system out of millions. The documentary interviews both the people making the fakes,and the people who eventually caught them.
- Description:Third series examining crime.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Hart Davies Television Ltd.
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:01/07/2004
- Rights:Worldwide
- Decade: 2000s