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2 Japanese carrying $134 bil worth of U.S. bonds detained in Italy
Japan Today ^ | Thursday 11th June, 06:18 AM JST | JapanToday

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Japan
KEYWORDS: 200906; 20090603; bearerbonds; bonds; counterfeit; fakebonds; italy; japan; japanese; mafia; meyerhardt; milan; milancell; stephenmeyerhardt; switzerland; tbills; tm; treasurybonds; undeclaredbonds; undeclaredusbonds; usbonds; ustreasurybonds
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To: MissouriConservative
Something really strange here. A government wouldn't have to sneak into Switzerland. Just put the bonds in the diplomatic pouch and walk in, or, trade them through Singapore. Further, no one individual is known to have $134 billion in liquid wealth. So, I suspect forge bonds and maybe an exposed sting operation. I suspect somebody was trying to fool a tin horn dictator with those bonds!
281 posted on 06/16/2009 7:47:15 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f200bec6-5c69-11de-aea3-00144feabdc0.html

“Italian Mafia cashes in on fake T-bills”
By FT reporters
Published: June 19 2009 03:00 | Last updated: June 19 2009 03:00

SNIPPET: “Whether the men are really Japanese, as their passports declare, is not entirely clear, but Italian and US secret services working together soon concluded that the bills and accompanying bank documents were most probably counterfeit, the latest han-diwork of the Italian Mafia.”


282 posted on 06/19/2009 12:41:03 AM PDT by Cindy
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and the story rolls on...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/5586543/Is-this-the-death-of-the-dollar.html

“Is this the death of the dollar?”

SNIPPET: “After two smugglers were stopped last week with what at first appeared to be $134bn in US state bonds, the tension and paranoia surrounding the fate of the dollar hit a new high.”

By Edmund Conway
Published: 7:32PM BST 20 Jun 2009

SNIPPET: “In the event, late last week American officials confirmed that the notes were forgeries.”


283 posted on 06/22/2009 11:47:55 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Mjc4OTc2MTYyMDI0MTQyZDBmYjExMWMzODlkNzk3Mzk=

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June 19, 2009 12:00 AM

“The Curious Case of the $134.5 Billion Briefcase
Whisking sham bonds through the Alps.”

By Deroy Murdock


284 posted on 06/23/2009 12:28:12 AM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/bonds/index?tab=articles

http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294436/posts

“UPDATE 1-U.S. Treasury says bonds seized in Italy are fakes”

Posted on July 16, 2009 6:07:03 PM PDT by BlackVeil

http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN1946360420090619

Fri Jun 19, 2009

By David Lawder

SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON, June 19 (Reuters) - A purported $134 billion in U.S. government bearer bond certificates seized by police near the Italian-Swiss border are fake, the U.S. Treasury said on Friday.

“Based on the photograph we’ve seen online, they are clearly fake. And not even good fakes,” said Stephen Meyerhardt, a spokesman for the Treasury’s Bureau of the Public Debt.

He added that there is only $105 million in Treasury bearer bond securities outstanding, so the $134 billion amount seized far exceeds the universe of outstanding securites.

The Treasury’s determination confirmed the suspicions of Italy’s Guardia di Finanza, or tax police, who seized the bond documents in early June from two Japanese nationals at the Chiasso rail station in northern Italy, close to the border with Switzerland.

The bonds comprised 249 “Federal Reserve” bonds of $500 million nominal value each and 10 “Bond Kennedy” with a $1 billion nominal value, the tax police said June 4 in a statement.”


285 posted on 07/16/2009 6:21:39 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN1946360420090619

“UPDATE 1-U.S. Treasury says bonds seized in Italy are fakes”
Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:39pm EDT E
“(Updates with details on bonds, U.S. Secret Service comment)”

By David Lawder

SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON, June 19 (Reuters) - A purported $134 billion in U.S. government bearer bond certificates seized by police near the Italian-Swiss border are fake, the U.S. Treasury said on Friday.

“Based on the photograph we’ve seen online, they are clearly fake. And not even good fakes,” said Stephen Meyerhardt, a spokesman for the Treasury’s Bureau of the Public Debt.”


286 posted on 11/23/2009 5:59:51 PM PST by Cindy
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To: April Lexington

hedge funds... like Jeffrey Epstein.


287 posted on 11/25/2019 1:46:55 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Cindy

Maybe it was financing for all the Arab Spring Muslim Brotherhood revolutions that started not long after Obama’s infamous “New Beginning” Cairo speech [which Imam Rauf claimed . Egyptian/Swiss Tariq Ramadan [now recently dead?] really really loved that speech, and had ties to very rich Qataris


288 posted on 11/25/2019 2:20:12 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa

10 year old story.


289 posted on 11/25/2019 2:24:40 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Ginsberg didn't kill herself.)
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To: Xenophon450

Bookmark


290 posted on 11/25/2019 2:50:56 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.>>>)
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To: mad_as_he$$

Who got to keep the bonds?


291 posted on 11/25/2019 3:59:01 AM PST by xp38
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To: Xenophon450

In a suitcase.. Amazing.


292 posted on 11/25/2019 4:19:19 AM PST by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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To: xp38

Good question.


293 posted on 11/25/2019 5:15:02 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Ginsberg didn't kill herself.)
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To: Xenophon450

Made in Japan.


294 posted on 11/25/2019 5:22:12 AM PST by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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To: mad_as_he$$
10 year old story.

Thirteen year old actually.

295 posted on 11/25/2019 5:31:27 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: xp38
Who got to keep the bonds?

Nobody. They turned out to be counterfeit.

296 posted on 11/25/2019 5:32:25 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: djf

FYI “Tiger Likes Rooster” (a pro-American, conservative South Korean Freeper of nearly 20 years) has left Free Republic over the insane shit done by DJT visa a vis Kim/DPRK that we would never in a million years countenance in an Obama presidency. Sorry. Pretty unceremoniously....they really slammed the door on that wonderful frontline resource.


297 posted on 11/25/2019 5:43:24 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo
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To: DoodleDawg

Ok thanks.


298 posted on 11/25/2019 6:03:31 AM PST by xp38
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