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249 Federal Reserve Bonds for 500 million dollars of nominal value each, plus 10 Kennedy bonds of 1 billion dollars each was found in the hidden bottom of a suitcase for a total of 134 billion dollars, or around 96 billion euro.

That’s what has been confiscated during some checks for illicit capital traffic by operatives of Sezione Operativa Territoriale di Chiasso in the Chiasso train station, on the boundary between Italy and Switzerland, in collaboration with Guardia di Finanza del Gruppo di Ponte Chiasso.

The bonds where carried by two Japanese people in their fifties that got off in the Chiasso train station from a train coming from Italy. At customs they declared nothing of value.

An accurate search of their luggage showed up the bonds, well hidden in a special compartment of their suitcases, behind their personal effects.

In addition to the bonds the two Japanese were carrying a large amount of original banking documentation.

Investigations are underway for the bonds and the documents, which also have been confiscated, to understand their authenticity and origin. If the titles would be authentic, the administrative sanction applicable would amount 38 billion euro, equivalent to 40% of the exceeding of the maximum allowed amount of 10.000€.

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http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/2-japanese-carrying-134-bil-worth-of-us-bonds-detained-in-italy

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