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- robotron3k0
looks like "counterfeiting" is the new crisis of the day behind the pandemic of the swine flu. Seems like it would be pretty simple to design, print and stamp a bunch of paper and make it looks pretty official and valuable.
"Milan (AsiaNews) – Italy’s financial police (Guardia italiana di Finanza) has seized US bonds worth US 134.5 billion from two Japanese nationals at Chiasso (40 km from Milan) on the border between Italy and Switzerland. They include 249 US Federal Reserve bonds worth US$ 500 million each, plus ten Kennedy bonds and other US government securities worth a billion dollar each.
Italian authorities have not yet determined whether they are real or fake, but if they are real the attempt to take them into Switzerland would be the largest financial smuggling operation in history; if they are fake, the matter would be even more mind-boggling because the quality of the counterfeit work is such that the fake bonds are undistinguishable from the real ones."
http://www.asianews.it/index.php…
but the bigger news will be when they start talking up the counterfeiting of silver and gold coins and bars coming out of some province in china...
- I doubt they are fake, sadly someone was trying to move a massive amount of cash and got caughtGeorgesII