$742 billion - 134.5 billion = 606.5 billion + the confiscated bonds remained in the hands of the Italians and there is proof that they have been redeemed by the Italian government?

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"In 2009, Italian financial police seized $742 billion of fake U.S. bearer bonds in the of Chiasso, on the Swiss-Italian border."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-bonds-forgery-idUSTRE81G11620120217

"In 2009, Italian financial police seized $742 billion of fake U.S. bearer bonds in the northern Italian town of Chiasso, near the Swiss border."
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/police-seize-6t-in-fake-u-s-treasury-bonds-in-switzerland

"Italy’s financial police (Guardia italiana di Finanza) has seized US bonds worth US 134.5 billion from two Japanese nationals at Chiasso (40 km from Milan) on the border between Italy and Switzerland."
https://www.businessinsider.com/italy-seizes-a-ridiculous-135-billion-worth-of-smuggled-us-bonds-2009-6

"However, the confiscated bonds remained in the hands of the Italians and there is proof that they have been redeemed by the Italian government and the Federal Reserve Bank in new York and placed in a financial program of the United Nations."
https://www.ellaster.nl/2016/04/15/the-trillion-dollar-lawsuit/

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