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.
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上周,两位日本人提着一只装有1340亿美元(约4.4兆新台币)美国公债的手提箱,准备从义大利闯关进入瑞士,但在边境遭到义大利警方扣押。这个桉件的细节目前仍未见光,但各种阴谋论已经传遍全球。
有人揣测,两位走私者可能是北韩领袖金正日的代表,负责为他在瑞士囤积现金;有人说这些钱是要为恐怖分子购买核子弹头。也有人说,日本正悄悄地抛售美元。当然,债券的真实性已引起强烈的怀疑。
然而,这些债券的合法性所代表的含意,可能远远超出投资人的想像。最低程度来说,这意味美国可能丧失对庞大资金的掌控权,并直接危及美元的地位。
因为,美国未来几年发行的数兆美元公债,需要众多的买主支撑,如果投资人对美元失去信心,后果自然不堪设想。
说来不可思议,这两个傢伙携带的债券金额相当于纽西兰的国内生产毛额(GDP),足够办三次的北京奥运。如果国家是可以买卖的话,这笔钱可以买下斯洛伐克与捷克后,剩馀的钱还可再拿来买蒙古与柬埔寨。相形之下,诈骗500多亿美元的马多夫根本不算什麽。
他们在手提箱夹层下藏着249张面额5亿美元的的美国公债凭证,外加10张面额各10亿美元的「甘迺迪债券」,单是这一手提箱的债券,就足够让他们成为美国的第四大债权人,甚至比巴西持有的美国债券还多。
一只手提箱就可以买下许多国家的故事,足以让想像力有如天马行空的小说家自惭形秽,但或许是情节几近荒诞,这个消息竟然没有在市场引起太大的涟漪。
这些债券的真实性引起很多人质疑,但假设是真的,第一个感到难堪的一定是日本财务大臣与谢野馨,因为他最近才信誓旦旦地保证,对美元有「绝对不会动摇」的信心。而且,他对日本持有的6860亿美元公债的流向,就有得解释了。
此外,义大利政府可能也会期待这些债券是货真价实,因为根据法律规定,政府可对走私者课以相当于走私金额四成的重罚。对于面临严重财政赤字的政府而言,这不啻是天降横财。
- posted on 06/18/2009
google 查到一点。
Japan,Italy,and U.S., 134 Billion in US Bonds Smuggling Case
by Parisgnome
Sat Jun 13, 2009 at 01:12:04 PM PDT
This would make a great movie. Two Japanese couriers are stopped and searched trying to cross into Switzerland from Italy with 134 Billion in US bearer bonds. The bonds were hidden in a secret compartment of a suitcase.
Yes, officials are determining if these are counterfeit or legitimate. If real, Italy stands to collect 40 Billion dollars as that is the penalty on the 134 billion amount.
These bonds (#249 500 million notes) are bearer bonds,that is like a check drawn on the U.S. Treasury,payable to the holder.
You just can't make this stuff up,but this story has had almost no exposure by the MSM in this country.
- Re: 这样的新闻可信吗?posted on 06/18/2009
maya wrote:
google 查到一点。
Japan,Italy,and U.S., 134 Billion in US Bonds Smuggling Case
by Parisgnome
Sat Jun 13, 2009 at 01:12:04 PM PDT
This would make a great movie.
啥子狗屎都要拍电影? 你我本来就受害于这帮金融虫子,他们喝了你的血,还要再把故事排成电影骗你的时间和钱? - posted on 06/18/2009
SEC Gets A Shot At Redemption By Greg Michaels
Jun 15 (dealbreaker) -- If Mary Schapiro and the revamped SEC can't put this one away, there is really no hope for them. Italian authorities recently found a little surprise in the suitcases of two Japanese travelers trying to cross the border into Switzerland- US government bonds with a face value of over $134 billion. The Italian police now want the SEC to opine on whether these two individuals were just overpacking for a holiday in the Alps or up to something a little more illicit.
Among the issues that may befuddle SEC are:
(1) The likelihood the 2 people stopped at the border are legitimately the US's fourth largest creditor
(2) The denominations listed on the bonds did not exist on the date they were theoretically issued; and
(3) The "Kennedy" classification of the bonds does not appear to exist.
Italian Police Ask SEC to Authenticate Seized U.S. Treasuries By Sonia Sirletti and John Glover
June 12 (Bloomberg) -- Italy’s financial police said they asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to authenticate U.S. government bonds found in the false bottom of a suitcase carried by two Japanese travelers attempting to cross into Switzerland.
The bonds, with a face value of more than $134 billion, are probably forgeries, Colonel Rodolfo Mecarelli of the Guardia di Finanza in Como, Italy, said today. If the notes are genuine, the pair would be the U.S. government’s fourth-biggest creditor, ahead of the U.K. with $128 billion of U.S. debt and just behind Russia, which is owed $138 billion.
The seized notes include 249 securities with a face value of $500 million each and 10 additional bonds with a value of more than $1 billion, the police force said on its Web site. Such high denominations would not have existed in 1934, the purported issue date of the notes, Mecarelli said. Moreover, the “Kennedy” classification of the bonds doesn’t appear to exist, he said.
The bonds were seized in Chiasso, Italy. Mecarelli said he expects a determination from the SEC “within a few days.”
- Re: 这样的新闻可信吗?posted on 06/18/2009
Two individuals become the fourth largest creditors of the US? I think it's fake. ;-) - Re: 这样的新闻可信吗?posted on 06/18/2009
咳,电影都是骗钱,这个新闻很entertain,想着两个鬼鬼祟祟的日本人贼溜溜地混进人群中,提着两个装满美国国债的皮箱....很搞笑... - Re: 这样的新闻可信吗?posted on 06/18/2009
- Re: 这样的新闻可信吗?posted on 06/18/2009
Maya, have you seen the movie "The International"? You can write a script along those lines, with a twist of a female secret agent from China. ;-)
maya wrote:
咳,电影都是骗钱,这个新闻很entertain,想着两个鬼鬼祟祟的日本人贼溜溜地混进人群中,提着两个装满美国国债的皮箱....很搞笑...
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