[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Here’s the source article, by the way:

http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=15505

[thecodont]

Thirdly, how the seizure took place is worthy of a Monty Python movie—two well-dressed Japanese men carrying a briefcase travelling in a local train usually used by Italian manual labourers who commute to Switzerland for work had as much chance to go unobserved as two European businessmen travelling in the Congo.

Perhaps if they had instead dressed as Italian manual laborers...