BIS bankanum blandað inn í japanska skuldabréfasmyglið

BIS bankanum í Basel í Sviss, eða seðlabanka seðlabankanna í heiminum og síðasta vinnustað næstkomandi seðlabankastjóra á Íslandi hefur nú verið blandað í japanska skuldabréfasmyglið í smábænum Chiasso. Þar voru tveir menn gripnir með 17.000 milljarða kr. í bandarískum skuldabréfum.

Tveir fimmtugir Japanir voru nýlega stöðvaðir af ítölsku fjármálalögreglunni, Guardia di Finanza, í járnbrautarlest í bænum Chiasso, smábæ á landamærum Ítalíu og Sviss. Þeir höfðu í fórum sínum bandarísk ríkisskuldabréf sem hafa verið til ítarlegrar rannsóknar en líklegt þykir að skuldabréfin séu fölsuð. Markaðsvirði bréfanna er um 17 þúsund milljarðar króna.

Talsmaður leyniþjónustu Bandaríkjanna hefur komist að þeirri niðurstöðu að ríkisskuldabréfin væru fölsuð en nú virðist það ekki vera svo augljóst.

Komið hefur í ljós að Japanirnir tveir voru starfsmenn japanska fjármálaráðuneytisins. Að auki er annar mannanna bróðir Toshiro Muto, sem lét úr embætti aðstoðarseðlabankastjóra Japans fyrir skömmu.

Samkvæmt heimildum, áttu Japanirnir að flytja ríkisskuldabréfin til Sviss vegna þess að japanska ríkisstjórnin hafði miss trúna á því að ríkisstjórn Bandaríkjanna gæti staðið í skilum við skuldbindingar sínar og þar með staðið í skilum á útgefnum ríkisskuldabréfum sínum. Í Sviss var markmið þeirra að selja hluta af skuldabréfunum en þar í landi hefur ríkt mikil bankaleynd.

Önnur kenning sem er á floti samkvæmt frásögn í Asianews er að þessir opinberu starfsmenn hafi verið að smygla skuldabréfunum frá ríkissjóði Japan yfir í BIS bankann. Skýringin er að skuldabréfin hafi átt að létta BIS róðurinn við að mynda nýja ofurmynt í heiminum sem gæti tekið við dollaranum sem helsta gjaldeyrisforðamyntin.

Það er mjög erfitt að trúa því að ríkisskuldabréf uppá 134,5 milljarða Bandaríkjadala gætu farið inní fjármálakerfið án þess að nokkur taki eftir því.

Til að staðfesta umræddan orðróm ætlaði útvarpsmaður hjá Turner Radio News, sem skoðað hefur málið ofan í kjölinn og upplýst almenning um málavexti, að reyna að uppljóstra raðnúmerum skuldabréfanna. Áður en hann gat gert það var hann handtekinn og færður í fangelsi.

Í dramatísku símtali frá fangelsinu lýsti útvarpsmaðurinn því að handtaka hans væri pólitísks eðlis og væri í tengslum við áðurnefnd skuldabréf. Hann hafi hreinlega verið handtekinn vegna ótta yfirvalda við að uppljóstra um uppruna skuldabréfanna.

Fullyrt er að handtaka hans hafi ekkert með hugsanlegt sviksamlegt athæfi hans að gera og það gerir málið enn flóknara.

[sjá meira um málið í fyrri bloggfærslu]

http://visir.is/article/20090710/VIDSKIPTI07/253256383/-1

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[Baldur Fjölnisson, 10.7.2009 kl. 22:35]

ASIA-ITALY Everything suggests that the American bonds seized at Chiasso are real - Asia News

 Official U.S. sources continue to say they are fakes, but there is no news that American experts have inspected them in person. Arrested for another matter, the director of a U.S. radio who says the bonds are real and Japan was trying to sell in Switzerland, not trusting the ability of the United States to honour its debt. 

Milan (AsiaNews) – Four weeks have passed since American bonds were confiscated from two Japanese men who were travelling on a direct train to Chiasso, Switzerland, and while there has been clarification of some - very few -points, Italian authorities have remained silent on the rest of the episode.

 In addition, a strange coincidence in the timing of the arrest of a director of an internet radio who had made revelations regarding the incident ,increases the already strong oddities surrounding the case. This added to the revaluation of the fact that among the evidence seized there were "Kennedy Bonds", all points toward the authenticity of the items seized by the Guardia di Finanza (GdF) in early June.  

The major English-speaking newspapers ignored the story for a couple of weeks. They only started to report on it after the Bloomberg agency carried a story on  18 / 6, in which a spokesman for the Treasury, Meyerhardt, declared that the bonds, based on photos available on the Internet, were "clearly false." The same day, the Financial Times (FT) published an article whose title laid the blame for the (alleged) infringement at the feet of the Italian Mafia, despite the fact that the article failed to make even one possible connection with the episode in Chiasso. Nevertheless, the version of events as reported in FT was taken up by others as being "appropriate" (given that it is a very common cliché about Italy and it is a sequester that took place in Italy) and in the end "colourful." It’s a pity that it goes against all logic: that the Mafia tried to pass unnoticed in its attempt to dump fake bonds amounting to 134.5 billion dollars and moreover were to "stung" a mere step from their gaol,  is not very credible.

Most recently last week, 25 / 6, the New York Times reported on the story in particular, the allegations of CIA spokesman, Darrin Blackford: the U.S. Secret Service carried out inspections, as required by the Italian judiciary, and found that they were fictitious financial instruments, never issued by the “U.S. government”.  It is not clear, however, how the checks mentioned by Blackford were carried out and whether they were also are carried out via internet. In fact according to official Italian sources  the Commission of American experts, expected in Italy, have yet to arrive. Furthermore, the bonds were accompanied by a recent and original bank record. It is therefore unclear how the U.S. authorities can declare fake documentation that does not originate from the Fed or the U.S. Department of Treasury.

On the contrary, claims in support of the bond’s authenticity were made 20 / 6  on the Turner Radio Network (TRN), an independent radio station broadcast via Internet. On that date in a massive exposure, TRN stated that the two Japanese men arrested by the Guardia di Finanza (GdF) and then released in Ponte Chiasso were employees of the Japanese Ministry for Treasury. AsiaNews had also received similar reports: one of the two Japanese arrested in Chiasso and then released is Tuneo Yamauchi, is the brother of Toshiro Muto, until recently vice governor of the Bank of Japan. On its website, the creator and presenter of the Radio, Hal Turner, had also claimed that his sources had revealed that the Italian authorities believe the evidence to be authentic and that the two Japanese officials are from the Japanese Ministry for Finance.

They were supposed to bring the bonds to Switzerland because the Japanese government had apparently lost confidence in U.S. ability to repay its debt. Japanese financial authorities therefore were trying to sell a part of the securities in their possession through parallel channels ahead of an imminent financial disaster, thanks to the  anonymity which, Turner said, is guaranteed by the laws of Switzerland.  

AsiaNews does not know to what extent Turner’s revelations can be held as credible, given that in this case too, it is difficult to believe that $ 134.5 billion would pass unnoticed anywhere in the world. It seems far more logical to assume that the bonds, if authentic, were directed to the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, BIS, the central bank of central banks ahead of the issuance of securities in a new supranational currency. Turner had in any event added that as evidence to support his revelations he would have provided the serial numbers of the seized bonds. Before he could do so, however, was imprisoned. Hal Turner is the journalist who long ago first broke the news of a secret plan to replace the dollar, after a severe financial crisis, with a common North American currency, the Amero.

In a dramatic phone call from inside the prison in which he is detained pending trial, relayed via internet, Hal Turner claims that his arrest is political and it is in relation to the securities seized in Chiasso, because the authorities are terrified by his revelations of the bonds’ authenticity. Of course, the allegations made against him have to nothing to do with the story and thus an already intricate story becomes ever more complex. Turner maintains that he did not personally formulate the disclosure for which he has been imprisoned. Although it was clearly his responsibility to remain vigilant, it is also true that blogs from around the world and the U.S. themselves are full of threats and provocations. The coincidental timing, the unusual diligence and the details of his arrest arouse  suspicions about the true motives of the American federal police. Indeed, this very arrest suggests that the evidence seized from GdF are truly authentic.

One more element in favour of the bond’s authenticity is found in the securities, which in the June 4 statement, the GdF termed "Kennedy Bonds” with photos provided. These photos reveal that the securities under discussion are not bonds but Treasury Notes, because they are securities that can be immediately exchanged for their worth in goods or services and because they are devoid of interest coupons. One side carries a reproduction of the image of the American president, the reverse side that of a spaceship. From confidential, usually well-informed sources, AsiaNews has learned that this type of paper money was issued less than ten years ago (in 1998), although it is difficult to know whether those seized in Chiasso are authentic. But the fact that the release of this particular State Treasury was not completely in the public domain tends to exclude the possibility of counterfeiting. It highly unreasonable to suppose that a forger would reproduce a State Treasury not commonly in circulation and of which there is no public knowledge.

For this reason, it can be concluded that the 124.5 billion dollars divided in 249 bonds of 500 million each are authentic. These titles, although referred to as "Federal Reserve Notes" are actually bonds, because they accrue interest and are redeemable at maturity. But one question remains unsolved regarding them. It is somewhat hard to understand why the securities, which were from the outset indistinguishable from the original to the GdF, all have their coupons. Any ordinary investor, even a state, would have cashed in the interest coupon every year, so as not to lose purchasing power.

http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=15648