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Queens Spy Shop suspected of making fake city parking passes

A Queens surveillance-equipment store is suspected of making bogus city parking passes, according to papers filed in Brooklyn federal court.

The owner of the Queens Spy Shop in East Elmhurst received a shipment of 1,000 fake city Department of Transportation parking-pass holders from India, the papers state. So investigators suspect the shop produces fake placards to slip into the fake holders embossed with NYC DOT ­hologram logos, papers state.

“There is probable cause to believe that the Queens Spy Shop manufactures counterfeit NYC DOT permit parking passes,” an agent stated in a search-warrant application.

A warrant executed at the store last month reportedly turned up the trove of fake holders in addition to nine fake placards and a trove of surveillance gadgets.

Agents also seized several laptop computers.

The shop is not authorized to sell the placards and the city issues only 500 of them to legitimate users.

The store’s owner, Jonel Van Demark, was charged with bank fraud in Manhattan federal court in July for using fake identities and documents to cash $500,000 in stolen checks, according to court filings.

In addition to the fake permits, which allow parking nearly anywhere, agents also intercepted a shipment of suspect surveillance items, including camera-fitted coffee holders.

A staffer at the store ­declined to comment.