Dos japoneses han sido detenidos por la policía italina al intentar cruzar la frontera italo-suiza con bonos USA por valor de 134.000 millones de dólares .
la policía pidió a la Comisión de Bolsa y Valores de EE.UU. autentificar los bonos que se encontraron en el falso fondo de una maleta transportada por dos viajeros japoneses que intentaban cruzar a Suiza.
Si los bonos son auténticos, la pareja sería cuarto mayor acreedor del gobierno de los EE.UU. , por delante del Reino Unido con US $ 128 mil millones de deuda .
Fuente de la noticia, completa en inglés:
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.”
To contact the reporters on this story: Sonia Sirletti in Milan at ssirletti@bloomberg.netJohn Glover in London at johnglover@bloomberg.net
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