[hiredhand]

I didn't have to leave as soon as I thought, so I caught up. At this point I don't think that the money belongs to a nation state. If it did, they could have simply used their own diplomatic service to transport the bonds and then do "whatever" transaction they had in mind once at their destination. Hiding money in the bottom of a suitcase is...well... "amateur".

So the question remaining is, WHO is the real owner of the bonds? I have no idea, but with it being such a large quantity, it's going to be a fairly limited group as to who it could belong to. I'd be willing to say at this point that it doesn't belong to the two who were caught with it!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I'm getting here late...but maybe this is new...indirectly from the AP:

2 Japanese carrying $134 bil. worth of U.S. bonds detained in Italy+

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2 Japanese carrying $134 bil. worth of U.S. bonds detained in Italy+

Jun 10 10:12 AM US/Eastern

[investigateworld]

Thanks.

But it sounds to me like those bonds ought to be 'forfeited to the USA< Philippines, Indonesia - & the rest of the beneficiaries of the "Co-prosperity era"