Posted on 06/10/2009 10:45:08 PM PDT by Xenophon450
ROME —
Two Japanese nationals were detained by Italian financial police last week after trying to enter Switzerland with $134 billion worth of undeclared U.S. bonds, mostly Treasury bonds, an Italian daily said Wednesday. The Japanese consulate general in Milan confirmed that the detention had taken place and said it was trying to confirm with Italian authorities whether the two were indeed Japanese nationals and their identities.
According to the report in il Giornale, two unidentified Japanese in their 50s concealed the bonds, including 249 U.S. Treasury bonds each worth $500 million, in a suitcase with a false bottom that was searched by the Italian authorities June 3 when they were in Chiasso, at the border with Switzerland, about 50 kilometers north of Milan. The daily did not say on what charges they have been detained, but the two may have been detained on suspicion of attempting to take a large amount of securities out of Italy without declaring it because the paper said they had not declared the bonds.
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“Chiasso: “Niente da dichiarare” In valigia hanno 96 miliardi di euro”
di Luca Fazzo
(giovedì 11 giugno 2009)
It could be that someone is trying to get out ahead of the Chinese. But... who has that kind of liquidity?
Interesting. This smells to high heaven. I'll have to tune into Baghdad Bobbie Gibbs pressy.
“This us HUGE money”
Yes it is.......Did China just put in a buy order for the continent of Africa?
Sorry. I’m lost in the posts... Thanks!
No prob. Cindy found the original article at post 122. I’m having problems with the google translator service though.
“If the American bond were good, by way of penalty for illegal export the Italian State could intascarsene 40 %. 38 billion euro more or less.”
From your link.....
If Japan liquidates US Treasuries they do not want the USA to know. Therefore liquidate via Switzerland via a bond house not known for working with the Japanese
Like the green paper with MumboJumbo printed on it?
Yes intrinsic value of nada backed by blablah blablah government
Like this
http://www.csacurrency.com/csacur/csafake.htm
Tomorrow will tell!
This is interesting in many ways, one in that we just had the wacko supremacist guy cook off in the Holocaust museum...
By the way, one of the top al Qaeda terrorist financiers is a very old neonazi convert based in the Milan-Lugano area, IIRC.
If it's bogus I wonder if Japan Today is getting it from the same sources again?
This was then [note this was just after Joe Wilson's Niger uranium op ed, and around the time the FBI was tipped off about Ashar Karni's S African proliferation ring] :
JULY 9, 2003 : (CAPITOL HILL BLUE ARTICLE IS POSTED ON FR-- see T J WILKINSON )
JULY 9, 2003 3:08 : (TROLL POSTS CHB ARTICLE FROM JAPAN TODAY, INCLUDED LINK TO THE WHITE SUPREMACIST SITE STORMFRONT-- see T J WILKINSON ) Can I add something to the mix? At 3:08 today one of our returning trolls posted the article as it appeared on Japan Today. The user also was kind enough to include a link to Stormfront. The user has had many names here, and gets banned immediately because his ilk are not welcome here. For what it is worth. AM - 59 posted on 07/09/2003 8:01 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
Recall this thread on FR?
BREAKING: Conned big time "CIA Witness" to White House Lying about Intel story found to be FRAUD
and this one:
"Games People Play," 7/10/03 , William McKinley, Posted on 07/10/2003 3:39 PM PDT by William McKinley, Edited on 07/10/2003 5:27 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Truthout's "executive director" was a guy by the name of Marc Ash. TruthOut.org, which is run by managing editor William (Red) Rivers Pitt, co-author of an anti-American screed along with Scott "Have It Your Way" Ritter [the UNSCOM weapons inspector with the taste for for Burger King.
John Kerry buddy Peter Daou is also associated with Truthout. So is the Jow Wilson support group of ex-CIA employees called VIPS.
Truthout is funded by (or affiliated with) a group called SEE (Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs)
Truthout was registered the day before the 9/11 attacks.
Yep, from the link in post no. 122:
SNIPPET - QUOTE:
“Se i bond americani fossero buoni, solo a titolo di sanzione per l’esportazione clandestina lo Stato italiano potrebbe intascarsene il 40 per cento. 38 miliardi, euro più o meno.”
Thanks piasa.
Should I pull my posts?
I don’t want to fuel a false article — if it is indeed false.
I think you are ok...the Italian Finance Ministry has posted a press release saying the same thing.
Can you give me a link to the press release Shady Ray?
Yeah. One of the story links someone posted said this denomination is issued strictly for sovereign states.
Hard to think you can get away with counterfeiting something worth $134 billion dollars. But who knows.
Maybe some criminal deal where the price paid is 20 cents on the dollar, and the purchaser has contacts who can wash them through the banking system. But if they are real, then they probably came from one of 3 or 4 governments.
Whether they’re real or fake it will likely help undermine faith in paper currency either way. If those quantities of money are being illegitimately moved, it doesn’t engender faith in the existing system.
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