The Japanese Bond Smugglers Are Missing
At least the Japanese press is sitll interested in story of the two Japanese men caugh with some $134.5 billion in (presumably fake) US bearer bonds.
We can't read Japanese, and Google Translate isn't particularly helpful, but a reader informs us that the gist of this story is that a newspaper sent a reporter to Como, Italy and found that the men had been released, with their whereabouts unknown.
Now, the easiest, most-benign explanation for this whole thing is that it's just a counterfeiting scheme. Fine, but then why do you let them go without tracking their whereabouts.
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a guess, maybe these 2 were agents for the japanese government who were doing a test run using counterfeit bonds
ReplyDeleteOK folks, I read Japanese pretty well so I did you a favor and roughly translated the article for you (usually people pay be to do it). I was going pretty fast so its a little "rough grain" but hey yew get watcha pay for as my granpapy used to say.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, the article in Englsh. (Bow down and thank me please):
Italy: Is the 13 trillion yen bond issue a matter of forgery?
The two Japanese men involved in the incident were released to go wherever they wish without either receiving any form of punishment for an alleged contraband attempt.
It is assumed that two Japanese men tried to remove a considerable sum of U.S. securities -- to the tune of 134 billion dollars (or about 13 trillion yen) in total from Italy to Switzerland on the third of this month. There has been a general consensus that the probability is high that the supposed bonds are actually counterfeits. The story involves everything from the coverage of Mainichi Newspaper through the 15th to the the cautious restraint of the Italian authorities. In point of fact, there was an earlier case (around the beginning of April of this year) of a Japanese citizen being nabbed for another large counterfeiting scheme. The Italian financial authorities and the public prosecutors office are investigating with the expectation that there will be a systematic process in which the Japanese will respond to this and other "Enormous amount" crimes that are buffeting the pages of our paper one after another.
This prosecution agency is investigating the confiscated bonds in cooperation with the U.S. embassy in Rome. One particular United States bond as well as two Kennedy bonds were involved, but authorities point to the fact that the bonds have very old printing dates and would now be technically expired even if genuine. Sources identified other signs of counterfeiting, such as the high likelihood that years and amounts issued do not match in some cases..." [Wheh, I'm just getting sick of translating here. Heck, you get what you pay for, son. To summarize the rest briefly: Rhe article dryly describes some nuanced aspects of Italian law that allow the two released and says that they cannot be followed by the Italian gvt. The Japanese International Affairs authorities "stated no particular intention" to keep tabs on those involved.]
No no no no no! One of the men involved is the brother in law of the past Finance minister of Japan. These bonds are not counterfeit, they are real.
ReplyDeleteThe entire thing was staged. Part of the problem here is to send the message that bonds can be faked so well that only the US Government can tell if they are real or fake.
134.5 billion is the exact amount the Fed said they had left to spend buying bad assets.
This entire story reeks of intelligence op.
Ostensibly, the purpose of this 'exercise' was to cause serious consternation to those
that hold US bearer bonds.
The stampede out of US bonds is begun...
this story is just getting more and more fishy.. 134 Billion in US bonds.. and the people carrying were released THAT QUICKLY!?!?!?
ReplyDeletewhat no questions, no detainment to delve a bit deeper..
I had originally not much of this, but NOW? something is definitley not right here.. I don't know if the Japanese are trying to test out dumping US IOUs, or maybe the chinease are setting this up to upset the markets or send a strong signal to the US that they mean business.. or who the hell knows.. but 134 BILLION IS NO SMALL CHANGE!
Well, because time spent is time spent, it's important that we provide a thing of value to the readership. With that in mind, I think it safe to announce that equities will decline in the next couple of months as the money is shifted into US treasuries, the Government now draining the last vestiges of credit from the system to support their spending habits.
ReplyDeleteWhile theoretically, gold and other precious metals should rise to reflect the devaluation of the currency, there is a rumour that a very powerful PTB-type person plans to artificually keep gold down for the duration of the economic malaise.
Normally, I wouldn't pay a lot of attention to such rumours, except in this case certain other key points made about their plans are indeed in full effect as of this writing.
Possibly coincidence, or possibly not.
Abd remember kids, many a person has been arrested by the authorities because the authorities had a conspiracy theory involving that person...
Thanks for the translation #1
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the Israelis that filmed the tower attacks and partied because they were there to 'film the entire event.' They spent a couple hours in custody. OPs people are always free to go ...
ReplyDeleteThe whole story is total nonsense. These bonds are not fake. The Japanese men were obviously connected to the government. The Italian and US authorities obviously want the story to go away not to crash the markets and to keep poring coolaid into the ears of brainless public. Try to counterfeit a dollar bill and you will not see daylight again. Here the “crooks” faked government bonds for 134 billion and were let go. Ha-ha. Only Americans can believe this BS. Only Americans can believe that Santa Klaus in the White House can print more than 2 trillion dollars of new currency and save America by spending into oblivion. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13969
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