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Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2012-04-22 01:26. Section: Daily Dispatches
Italian Police Seize $5 billion of U.S. Securities
By Danilo Masoni
Reuters
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Reuters
Saturday, April 21, 2012
MILAN, Italy -- Italian financial police have seized U.S. securities with face values of about $1.5 billion and gold certificates worth more than 3 billion euros ($3.96 billion) as part of an investigation into a possible international financial scam.
The police said on Saturday the "million-dollar" operation was a last step in the probe, which centered on the use of bearer Federal Reserve debt securities dating back to the 1930s as a guarantee for loans or other opaque cross-border transactions.
Rome police seized the securities from a 70-year-old man, who held them in a briefcase along with documents about financial operations, the police said in a statement.
Police said they were carrying out checks, helped by the U.S. central bank and the U.S. embassy in Rome, over the authenticity and origin of the securities, as well as over possible links between the man and criminal organizations.
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