Europe to stop issuing 500 euro "Bin Laden" bank notes

500 euro banknotes are expected to stop being printed in an attempt to prevent the financing of criminal activity.

The European Central Bank is set phase them out the banknote by 2018.

Our Europe correspondent Jack Parrock reports. 

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