13 June 2009 - 09H42
'Billions in bonds' seized on Swiss border
Italian police say they have stopped two Japanese men at the Swiss border with undeclared US bonds allegedly amounting to nearly 100 billion euros. Police are currently verifying if the bonds are genuine.
AFP - Italian financial police said Friday they were holding two Japanese men stopped on the Swiss border with US bonds allegedly worth 134 billion dollars, or nearly 100 billion euros.
The two middle-aged men were trying to enter Switzerland from Italy by train when they were checked by customs at Chiasso after saying they had nothing to declare.
The financial police at Como said 249 US Federal Reserve bonds with a face value of 500 million dollars each were found in a false-bottomed suitcase along with 10 so-called Kennedy bonds worth one billion dollars apiece.
"We are trying to verify if these bonds are genuine," a police spokesman said.
If they are authentic, the Japanese face a fine of up to 38 billion euros for smuggling, the police said.
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Why did this happen? How insane if scripted?
Is this huge? Maybe Ru in need of selling off in order to provide stability for their people,but in order not to create further financial systemic panic,chosing smuggling in order to not reveil who is forced to sell,and then CIA listening in on all worldwide communication wishing to avoid sell pressure on their instruments doing a deal with Italy who is looking for an A-list visit after being ignored by the world community..It promising to not sell the instruments.Or maybe it is a secret present to Italy ahead of a major military coop,a way of paying for it?If fake,then why not create hundreds of thousands of them?Why not have them out in the open mixed with layout similarly made ad sheets, because if fake, it would not be so important if a few got lost, right? Or is this the beginning of a flushing out campaign when it comes to seizing dirty money from organized crime operations? Wonder how Hollywood will spin it..