Italy seizes $135B of US bonds from two Japanese citizens

International Business Times. ^ | 11 June 2009 @ 06:51 pm ET | International Business Times.

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Two Japanese citizens carrying $134 billion worth of U.S. bonds were detained last week by Italy's financial police at Chiasso (40km from Milan) on the border between Italy and Switzerland, an Italian daily said Wednesday.

According to the report, they include 249 U.S. Treasury bonds each worth $500 million, plus 10 Kennedy bonds and other U.S. government securities worth a billion dollar each.

The two unidentified Japanese citizen were searched on June 3 when they were in Chiasso. They were detained on suspicion of attempting to take a large amount of securities out of Italy without declaring it.

The bonds were found hidden in the bottom of the suitcase, in a closed section separated from the part of the bag containing personal items.

Apart from the securities the Japanese men were carrying a considerable sum of original bank documents.

Investigations are underway to establish the identity and the origin of both the bonds and the bank documents that have also been impounded.

[buzzer]

That's change in the pocket only :-)

[Erik Latranyi]

This is what happens when liberals run gov’t...all sorts of laundering takes place.

This was probably a scheme to have the money coming back to an ACORN front group.

[DB]

There’s more posted here somewhere...

Read about it last night.

Big concern as to what’s really going on with this.

If the bonds are real something very dangerous is going on.

[ClearCase_guy]

Can you imagine stopping someone like this? You'd really have to ask yourself "Who are these guys? Do they know someone? Am I gonna get in trouble for stopping them?"

[xcamel]

Restocking the petty cash box for the builderbergs?

[Red Badger]

What car company were they going to buy?.............

[Red Badger]

Not ONE billion.
Not TEN billion.
Not a HUNDRED billion.
ONE HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE BILLION!
That would make them the richest men on EARTH!...............

[Red Badger]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_billionaires

[RckyRaCoCo]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269335/posts

[cbkaty]

Final destination: 1024 Elysian Fields in New Orleans

[stboz]

Yakuza?

[C210N]

Perhaps they were innocently gearing up to market a new board game. Monopoly is so 1960's; a board game with billion dollar bearer bonds is where its at now.

Weird thing is, this story works whether these bonds are fake or real, no difference.

[DB]

Thank you.

[silverleaf]

Yakuza called its bonds back home

[Red in Blue PA]

Two Japanese citizens carrying $134 billion worth of U.S. bonds

They make Madoff look like a piker!

(But I'm sure they earned all $134B/s

[DB]

That’s enough to buy many countries.

[Red Badger]

and a spare..................

[Red Badger]

Yemani.............

[Psycho_Bunny]

Your right but I’d be thinking, “Am I going to get dead for stopping them?”

[WellyP]

Is there any connection to Soros?