Not too obvious... Italy confiscates $6 trillion in fake U.S. bonds

[Analog]

(AP) MILAN - Authorities in Switzerland have confiscated $6 trillion in counterfeit U.S. bonds at the request of Italian prosecutors, authorities said Friday.
In Italy, eight people were arrested across the country and placed under investigation for fraud and other crimes.
The bonds, carrying the false date of issue of 1934, had been transported in 2007 from Hong Kong to Zurich, where they were transferred to a Swiss trust, according to prosecutors in the southern Italian city of Potenza.
Authorities said that U.S. officials had confirmed the bonds were counterfeit.
Prosecutors said the fraud had not been completed, but that it appeared that the suspects intended to try to sell the fake bonds to a developing nation, directly or through an intermediary bank.

 

[marvdmartian]

Was the GNP of every country combined equal to $6 Trillion in 1934?? 😵

 

[lxskllr]

Prosecutors said the fraud had not been completed, but that it appeared that the suspects intended to try to sell the fake bonds to a developing nation, directly or through an intermediary bank.

It would have been poetic if that nation was Nigeria :^D

 

[destrekor]

It would have been poetic if that nation was Nigeria :^D

Awww... why did they stop this?! That would have been grand, lol.

 

[darkewaffle]

Was the GNP of every country combined equal to $6 Trillion in 1934?? 😵

The 6T is likely in 2012 USD, which would have probably been some odd amount of millions/billions 80 years ago.

 

[darkxshade]

Authorities said that U.S. officials had confirmed the bonds were counterfeit.

Yea, only the US knows how to counterfeit trillions of fake money and get away with it. 😛

 

[Hoober]

Yea, only the US knows how to counterfeit trillions of fake money and get away with it. 😛

ZING!