Thanks for the ping! Jafar isn't a reliable witness IMO, if you look at some of his other statements, so I put no great confidence in his story, but the discrepancy between his and Baute's stories has to be resolved one way or the other. My working theory is that Baute already knew about the forgeries from France before the US or UK or whoever (depending on which account you go by) reportedly told him in February. I don't claim to be able to prove that at this point, though.