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

[Peter Lemkin]

'Allo 'allo 'allo what 'ave we 'ere then?

Italy confiscates euro20 billion in fake US bonds

Carabinieri on travel break nab 6 carrying counterfeit US bonds worth euro20 billion

On Wednesday January 26, 2011, 10:15 am EST

ROME (AP) -- Italian authorities have confiscated $20 billion in counterfeit U.S. government bonds.

Authorities say the bonds were of a quality that theoretically could have defrauded financial institutions.

But a stop at a highway rest area where a group of Carabinieri military police were taking a break proved to be the undoing of the group.

A Carabinieri statement said officers did a routine search of the vehicles after the "suspicious" behaviour of the men and found "to their surprise" a briefcase with 40 bonds 0each valued at $500 million.

Officials said Wednesday that U.S. officials confirmed the bonds were counterefeit. The six men are under investigation for receiving stolen goods.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Italy-conf...3.html?x=0

None of this story is plausible.

Carabinieri (Italian rozzers) on a "break" make a routine search and discover $20 billion in counterfeit US bonds.

"US officials" have already confirmed the bonds are "counterfeit".

The six men are under investigation for "receiving stolen goods".

Stolen from whom precisely?

So, just like the original story, the stage fades to black, the curtain closes and the audience is none the wiser. In the second act the same happens. Gee....I wonder what the final act of the play is like?!?! The POINT is not whether these [set 1 or set 2] are 'real' or not, but if they were used [alone or with other 'bonds'] for the exchange of funds [rather large sets of funds, I'd imagine] - and who is making them [or making up the stories about them]! Anyway, it seems clear that either no investigations are going on, or they are going on sub rosa, neither of which make me feel any more secure about our financial house of cards, worldwide. Whether real or fake bonds, whether true events or invented, I somehow sense these two acts are just the tip of some iceberg about to hit the Titanic.

N.B. Any chance this could be solved by combining it with the solution to the crytoptography expert who was murdered then put in a North Face travel bag?......both are equally bizarre and both stories just vanished from view after a few stories of inept investigations....just a thought and worth a laugh.