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Italy seized fake U.S. treasury bonds worth $ 6 trillion
Posted 18/02/2012 03:07 AM
Potenza (Italy) (Reuters) - Italian police said on Friday it had seized fake U.S. treasury bonds worth about six trillion dollars in Switzerland and it has issued arrest warrants against eight people accused of international fraud and other financial crimes.
A police source said that the operation carried out by the Italian authorities, Italian and Swiss after year-long investigation in coordination with prosecutors from the city of Potenza in southern Italy.
Bonds forged
The process began in Mrabah such as the achievement linked to the Mafia, but has expanded the claim was used to track phone and computer to detect evidence of illicit activities surrounding the U.S. Treasury bonds.
And were seized counterfeit Treasury bonds, which represents more than a third of U.S. debt in January of a trust company in Switzerland and was placed in three large suitcases.
And directed the U.S. Embassy thanked the Italian authorities said that the process of counterfeiting, "an attempt to defraud a number of Swiss banks."
Giovanni Colangelo said the prosecutor in Potenza to an international network "in the several States" stands behind the counterfeiting.
The newspaper Corriere della Sera, the Italian daily on its website, citing sources in the prosecutor's office that the criminal network believed to want to get the plutonium.
The footage showed police bags and seals them, "Federal Reserve system. The Treaty of Versailles" on the part of a large gold line.
Police said the alleged fraudsters eight charges of fraud Ausbandoan bonds, credit card fraud and usury in the regions of Lombardy and Piedmont, Lazio and Basilicata in Italy.
The prosecutor's office said the Swiss Federal prosecutors in Zurich who worked in the investigation at the request of the Prosecutor Milan. Switzerland recognized the results of the investigation in July last year.
In 2009, Italian police seized fake U.S. treasury bonds worth 742 billion dollars in the Italian city of Chiasso, near the Swiss border.
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Posted 18/02/2012 03:07 AM
Potenza (Italy) (Reuters) - Italian police said on Friday it had seized fake U.S. treasury bonds worth about six trillion dollars in Switzerland and it has issued arrest warrants against eight people accused of international fraud and other financial crimes.
A police source said that the operation carried out by the Italian authorities, Italian and Swiss after year-long investigation in coordination with prosecutors from the city of Potenza in southern Italy.
Bonds forged
The process began in Mrabah such as the achievement linked to the Mafia, but has expanded the claim was used to track phone and computer to detect evidence of illicit activities surrounding the U.S. Treasury bonds.
And were seized counterfeit Treasury bonds, which represents more than a third of U.S. debt in January of a trust company in Switzerland and was placed in three large suitcases.
And directed the U.S. Embassy thanked the Italian authorities said that the process of counterfeiting, "an attempt to defraud a number of Swiss banks."
Giovanni Colangelo said the prosecutor in Potenza to an international network "in the several States" stands behind the counterfeiting.
The newspaper Corriere della Sera, the Italian daily on its website, citing sources in the prosecutor's office that the criminal network believed to want to get the plutonium.
The footage showed police bags and seals them, "Federal Reserve system. The Treaty of Versailles" on the part of a large gold line.
Police said the alleged fraudsters eight charges of fraud Ausbandoan bonds, credit card fraud and usury in the regions of Lombardy and Piedmont, Lazio and Basilicata in Italy.
The prosecutor's office said the Swiss Federal prosecutors in Zurich who worked in the investigation at the request of the Prosecutor Milan. Switzerland recognized the results of the investigation in July last year.
In 2009, Italian police seized fake U.S. treasury bonds worth 742 billion dollars in the Italian city of Chiasso, near the Swiss border.
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