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Italy seizes $135B of US bonds from two Japanese citizens
International Business Times. ^
| 11 June 2009 @ 06:51 pm ET
| International Business Times.
Posted on 06/12/2009 6:42:37 AM PDT by buzzer
Two Japanese citizens carrying $134 billion worth of U.S. bonds were detained last week by Italy's financial police at Chiasso (40km from Milan) on the border between Italy and Switzerland, an Italian daily said Wednesday.
According to the report, they include 249 U.S. Treasury bonds each worth $500 million, plus 10 Kennedy bonds and other U.S. government securities worth a billion dollar each.
The two unidentified Japanese citizen were searched on June 3 when they were in Chiasso. They were detained on suspicion of attempting to take a large amount of securities out of Italy without declaring it.
The bonds were found hidden in the bottom of the suitcase, in a closed section separated from the part of the bag containing personal items.
Apart from the securities the Japanese men were carrying a considerable sum of original bank documents.
Investigations are underway to establish the identity and the origin of both the bonds and the bank documents that have also been impounded.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: bearerbonds; dollar; italy; japan; swiss; switzerland
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That's change in the pocket only :-)
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posted on
06/12/2009 6:42:37 AM PDT
by
buzzer
To: buzzer
This is what happens when liberals run gov’t...all sorts of laundering takes place.
This was probably a scheme to have the money coming back to an ACORN front group.
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posted on
06/12/2009 6:45:41 AM PDT
by
Erik Latranyi
(Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
To: buzzer
There’s more posted here somewhere...
Read about it last night.
Big concern as to what’s really going on with this.
If the bonds are real something very dangerous is going on.
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posted on
06/12/2009 6:46:23 AM PDT
by
DB
To: buzzer
Can you imagine stopping someone like this? You'd really have to ask yourself "Who are these guys? Do they know someone? Am I gonna get in trouble for stopping them?"
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posted on
06/12/2009 6:46:25 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(We are a ruled people, serfs to the Federal Oligarchy -- and the Tree of Liberty thirsts)
To: buzzer
Restocking the petty cash box for the builderbergs?
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posted on
06/12/2009 6:46:26 AM PDT
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: buzzer
What car company were they going to buy?.............
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posted on
06/12/2009 6:46:28 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Inquiring minds want to know, but American Idol minds could care less...)
To: ClearCase_guy
Not ONE billion.
Not TEN billion.
Not a HUNDRED billion.
ONE HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE BILLION!
That would make them the richest men on EARTH!...............
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posted on
06/12/2009 6:48:16 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Inquiring minds want to know, but American Idol minds could care less...)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
06/12/2009 6:49:25 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Inquiring minds want to know, but American Idol minds could care less...)
To: DB
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posted on
06/12/2009 6:50:13 AM PDT
by
RckyRaCoCo
(I hear the words of Jefferson louder and louder as each day passes)
To: Erik Latranyi
Final destination: 1024 Elysian Fields in New Orleans
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posted on
06/12/2009 6:50:26 AM PDT
by
cbkaty
(I may not always post...but I am always here......)
To: buzzer
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posted on
06/12/2009 6:50:33 AM PDT
by
stboz
To: buzzer
Perhaps they were innocently gearing up to market a new board game. Monopoly is so 1960's; a board game with billion dollar bearer bonds is where its at now.
Weird thing is, this story works whether these bonds are fake or real, no difference.
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posted on
06/12/2009 6:50:43 AM PDT
by
C210N
(A patriot for a Conservative Renaissance!)
To: RckyRaCoCo
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posted on
06/12/2009 6:50:56 AM PDT
by
DB
To: buzzer
Yakuza called its bonds back home
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posted on
06/12/2009 6:51:25 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
("Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal ( Martin Luther King))
To: buzzer; All
Two Japanese citizens carrying $134 billion worth of U.S. bonds
They make Madoff look like a piker!
(But I'm sure they earned all $134B/s
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posted on
06/12/2009 6:52:19 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
To: Red Badger
That’s enough to buy many countries.
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posted on
06/12/2009 6:52:20 AM PDT
by
DB
To: DB
and a spare..................
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posted on
06/12/2009 6:53:03 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Inquiring minds want to know, but American Idol minds could care less...)
To: stboz
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posted on
06/12/2009 6:53:38 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Inquiring minds want to know, but American Idol minds could care less...)
To: ClearCase_guy
Your right but I’d be thinking, “Am I going to get dead for stopping them?”
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posted on
06/12/2009 6:53:54 AM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
To: buzzer
Is there any connection to Soros?
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posted on
06/12/2009 6:55:09 AM PDT
by
WellyP
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