Chapter 1
The “Chiasso” Conundrum
Looking through, which I did every morning, the Internet Community Board sites, of which the majority originate from people or organisations in America, and what a varying and questionable selection there is, I came across an article “Italian Border Police Seize $1 Trillion in Financial Bonds”.
Interested and intrigued, mainly because I was engaged at the time by the Special Global Envoy of the very first International Treasury Controller, Dr. Ray C. Dam a descendant of the Cambodian Royal Family; in this rather “Special” system connected to the World’s Financial Systems, my initial thoughts on reading this article was that there existed a definite connection to what I was involved with, which, if my thoughts were correct it was yet another unlawful activity surrounding the assets of the Global Debt Facility. A secret facility, and one that has never been included in any known education curriculum anywhere in the world, which is very strange in itself because it was the main component of the world’s financial and economic systems; that the majority of people in the world know nothing about and one that has been abused ever since the facility first loosely existed back in the mid 1700’s, and more tightly existed in the mid 1800’s, but abused more since the end of World War II and the introduction of the Bretton Woods Treaty.
It was on a warm Italian summer's morning of the 1st June 2009, that two Japanese men, Akihiko Yamaguchi and Mitsuyoshi Watanabe, neatly suited, boarded a train at Como, Italy, heading for the Italian – Swiss border at Chiasso, Switzerland. According to the local Italians the train is regarded as the “Early Morning Workers Express” because it particularly carries general workers from Italy to Switzerland on a daily basis.
Needless to say, the two Japanese men, with their distinctive eastern characteristics, being neatly suited and carrying briefcases, were extremely conspicuous amongst all other passengers that they stood out like two large pumpkins among boxes of tomatoes at an Italian fruit and vegetable market, so much so that when the train arrived at the border with Switzerland it didn’t take very long for the Italian Border Police to spot that something was not normal and rather unusual with these two persons.
Looking totally lost, confused and certainly concerned, not knowing what to do, it becomes plainly obvious that Yamaguchi and Watanabe believed that the train on which they were passengers would go straight through to Switzerland without stopping at the border. The Border Police would have been laughing at the time under their serious facial expressions. How badly mistaken these two Japanese men were. Professional crooks would have undertaken such investigations as was necessary to determine where, if any, there were faults in their plan of fraud and smuggling financial instruments across National borders; and ensured the correction of same before they even undertook such a precarious venture.
Common sense should have prevailed with these two persons, but not knowing what they were doing and what they were up to, their minds were obviously focused on succeeding in their unlawful task of smuggling financial instruments across a national border, which is illegal within the European Union; rather than on fitting in with the sounding environment and looking as normal as possible. They believed it would be easy and they thought they were more than capable to get away with it. Complacency reigns. Arrest and prosecution follows.
Can you imagine how ridiculous, and plainly obvious, a sight it would have been to the border police officers? Two neatly suited Japanese men, carrying briefcases, mixed within a train load of Italian workers / individuals heading to their workplace in Lugano and surrounding areas?
Why didn’t these two Japanese men fly from Milan Malpensa international airport or Bergamo one might ask, instead of travelling by train, a general workers train at that? Thinking about it, the answer becomes obvious. The security scanners at the airport would have noticed something unusual about their luggage which would have prevented them from flying, hence why they, Akihiko Yamaguchi and Mitsuyoshi Watanabe, decided to take the train. Train Stations do not possess these elaborate scanning machines that we all have to frustratingly endure when flying, so by using the train services the detection rate for unlawful smuggling activities would be exceptionally low or practically zero, or that is what Yamaguchi and Watanabe wrongly believed, which was eventually proven to be to their detriment.
The border police, highly suspicious to say the least, so much so that even a blind person would have been quickly alerted; requested the two Japanese men, Yamaguchi and Watanabe, to disembark from the train directing them to the Immigration building / Border Post. Following the instructions of the Border / Immigration Police, Yamaguchi and Watanabe proceeded to, and inside the Immigration and Customs building, unaware of what they were to eventually be confronted with and ultimately found themselves in an office confronted by Senior Customs Police, upon which various questions were directed at them, their passports were checked and their luggage searched.
Upon checking the passports of the Japanese men, the border police became even more suspicious. Aroused by the fact that although each of the Japanese men were carrying and travelling on normal Japanese National Passports, it was found that within their briefcases were Japanese Diplomatic Passports. Immigration Border Police might not be efficient in comparison to the Immigration Police in other European countries but they are not that naïve to overlook the fact that Diplomats usually apply, and maintain, specific protocols when travelling on Diplomatic Passports, which is embodied within the United Nations Vienna Convention 1961 and the later Geneva Conventions of 1968/9. There were certainly no protocols being applied by Yamaguchi or Watanabe, the two Japanese men. In fact had the two Japanese men travelled on their Diplomatic Passports the Italian Border Police would have been impotent from doing anything against the two Japanese men, and they would have entered Switzerland from Italy totally free, uninhibited, and unencumbered. So why were they not using their Diplomatic Passports and risking their mission of fraud and illegally attempting to cross National borders with Financial Instruments, which in itself is a criminal offence in Europe, unless you are a Bonded Bank Courier or similar.
What a conundrum at the Chiasso border crossing with Switzerland, Yamaguchi and Watanabe had created for themselves, whereby it has to be asked as to how stupid some criminals can be in their attempt to make themselves beneficially wealthy (wishful thinking) in the process of their crime.
Showing complete amazement at the sight of the Diplomatic Passports, an abundant flow and passage of dialogue commenced, in Italian, between the various Border / Immigration officers, some openly suspicious, some more discreet with their facial expressions.
With their suspicions highly aroused the police officers proceeded to further inspect the luggage of the two Japanese men, which in fact consisted of just two briefcases. Again a little strange to say the least because two apparent businessmen / diplomats on their way through to Switzerland, strange that they did not have overnight luggage as it was considered a good possibility by the police that the two Japanese would possibly be incurring at least one overnight stay in Switzerland, or once business was concluded they would fly direct from Switzerland to their destination, so no luggage, even an overnight bag, was to the police part of a story that did not portray a true picture.