Alessandro Santi’s statement to the police was quite interesting. He had obviously known Akihiko Yamaguchi and Mitsuyoshi Watanabe for some time, and had even accommodated them at his home on occasions. Furthermore, Alessandro Santi appeared to have expended considerable sums of money for the expenses of both Mitsuyoshi Watanabe and Akihiko Yamaguchi which is confirmed by various email transmissions between the three persons above.
The expenditure of considerable sums of money to finance criminal activities by others is not unusual, very regular, and occurs all over the world. Such people like Santi, are totally naive and hold dreams of being enormously wealthy for their efforts / contributions towards the persons conducting the operations. When things go wrong they become far too embarrassed to admit their naivety and failure even though they may have lost multiple thousands of their savings. Usually, these are the tactics used by Intelligent agents all over the world. Although they generally have expenses provided by their masters, they pocket the expenses and rely on the naivety and stupidity of others who seek imminent wealth, to provide them with the resources they need. There is at least one fool around every corner.
Alessandro Santi’s statement to the police tells its own story. Two Japanese men, Yamaguchi and Watanabe, travelling with over $1 trillion USD worth of Financial Instruments in the one briefcase, yet being provided with funds and facilities by other persons, in this case Santi; just doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. If any person legally has assets worth $1 trillion USD then they have the financial means to undertake what is necessary without scrounging off others to finance their operations. That fact alone should inform most people that something is just not right here and allow for extreme caution. When such people as Yamaguchi and Watanabe need financial assistance from others it is always a con job and comprises of criminal activities which, of course, are never disclosed to such people as Alessandro Santi. Instead they get the “Teardrops” sob story about helping humanity, etc, etc, etc.
Furthermore, if this whole scenario was genuine, Yamaguchi and Watanabe would be welcome, with the “Red Carpet” treatment in almost all of the International Banks around the world. Why therefore didn’t Yamaguchi and Watanabe just fly to Geneva using their Diplomatic Passports ------ They couldn’t, and they knew it, because nothing was genuine or legal. They were conducting criminal activities with financial instruments that legally they did not own, and whose legal ownership is held, and rested with the Global Debt Facility.
The question as to why Alessandro Santi incurred so much expense for these two Japanese men at all when these men were carrying in excess of One Trillion US Dollars ($1,000,000,000,000 USD) worth of Financial Instruments hidden in their briefcase, is certainly worth serious questioning. Furthermore, why did Alessandro Santi provide his own car and time to transport these two Japanese men around, both in Italy and even on trips through to Switzerland.
Was he a fool, or was he just a naïve and innocent person who was blinded and coerced by false stories expressed to him by these two Japanese men? Not many 73 year old persons would have bothered and made the best of their retirement days. Not so with Alessandro Santi, he wanted to assist, having in the back of his mind the enormous financial wealth he would personally gain from assisting Yamaguchi and Watanabe, although the story he told to the Police, which is not unlike the many thousands across the world like him; was that he would be able to help humanity if he was successful in assisting the two Japanese men in utilising the Bonds and Certificates they held. Somehow, crooks and thieves always link “Humanity” to their stories to justify to others as to why they were involved in criminal activities. They can never admit their own greed, selfishness, and stupidity.
The answer actually lies in Alessandro’s own statement to the police, which, as a matter of fact, differs enormously from the statements made to the police by Mitsuyoshi Watanabe and Akihiko Yamaguchi.
Alessandro Santi did in fact meet these two Japanese men some time earlier at which time they relayed to him that they were International Investors and held Financial Instruments that could be used in a “Trade Program” to generate the funds to finance humanitarian projects and possibly Government projects.
Such stories are very frequent and very common all over the world and do not appear to have changed in decades. The talk of “Trading Programs” generating enormous returns always seem to flick a switch in the human brain, one that is easy to turn on and then jams in the ”On” position and impossible to turn “Off”. It is as if the words, either on their own or in conjunction with each other; such as wealth, trading programs, money, wake these people up from a coma, suddenly to become very active. It’s pathetic if one really thinks about seriously, but thousands, if not millions, around the world succumb to it and end up losing everything.
At the time, within this story, the two Japanese men were unaware of Alessandro Santi’s own family’s previous medical problems, so the story they told to Santi held an immediate and perfectly understandable impression and impact on Alessandro Santi, but it can not be helped thinking that Santi being the seventy three (73) years of age that he was, old enough, wise enough and well experienced in life, to have realised and understood that such things never happen.
Sometime earlier, Alessandro Santi’s wife suffered from serious cancer and from all accounts it was a 50-50 chance only of survival. Not a nice situation for anyone to have to face, but Alessandro Santi and his wife had faced it with courage.
The hospital to which she was admitted undertook a marvellous job and impeccable service considering they were exceptionally short on modern equipment and facilities, as revealed by the leading Physician who was primary in the treatment applied to Alessandro Santi’s wife. The wife survived and is still alive today thanks to the hospital and the dedication of all the staff.
Alessandro Santi vowed at that time that he would do all he could to generate the required finance for the hospital to be upgraded and new modern equipment purchased. A reaction that most people have when someone they love overcomes a serious illness and is able to freely walk out of any hospital to continue their life. What Santi did not realise, or failed to realise, was the fact that his reaction actually depended upon him indulging in criminal activities.
With the arrival of Akihiko Yamaguchi and Mitsuyoshi Watanabe on the scene, it must have felt to Alessandro Santi like God had shone a guiding light on him and sent two angels to assist him raise the funds for the hospital. In Santi’s eyes, a miracle, and one he must take advantage of, which he did and eventually ended up with a suspended jail sentence.
In reality such things never happen, or extremely rarely happen, but people with a strong faith do actually believe that such things happen. I have to admit that I have seen similar things in the Philippines, another country whose religious faith is predominantly Catholic, where even the slightest, or smallest, of signs can be interpreted, and “interpreted” is the dominant word in the majority of such circumstances; as a sign from Mother Mary, and people flock in their hundreds, if not thousands, to the locality of the supposed sign.
Whether one believes, or not, is irrelevant as we all have our different specific faith and beliefs. Furthermore, we should all show respect for all religious faiths and the beliefs of the applicable individuals, irrespective of our own individual beliefs. However, common sense should prevail at all times unless proven otherwise.
Santi’s brain worked overtime, the switch had been triggered and no matter what anyone stated to him, he believed. The switch could not be turned off. He was going to be a multi-millionaire and nothing was going to stop him. Then he could help the hospital who cured his wife of cancer, if that was really his intention.
With what appeared to be an excellent opportunity to assist the Hospital and Staff where his wife was treated and survived from serious cancer, Alessandro Santi’s mind must have become distorted with emotion based upon his and his wife’s personal experiences, therefore he agreed to assist Mitsuyoshi Watanabe and Akihiko Yamaguchi in whatever way he could believing that he and they would succeed and he could give money to the hospital that was badly needed for upgrading and new modern equipment.
Needless to say that shortly afterwards his dream and beliefs turned into a nightmare that could see him facing a conviction and possible imprisonment, because at the time he did not realise that by becoming involved with the two Japanese men he was, in fact, involving himself with experienced criminals, which in this case it became the not so experienced criminals. Furthermore, the Japanese men never gave any indication to Alessandro Santi that they were acting unlawfully, nor would they. They needed Santi more than he needed them, so their story had to stack up and be exceptionally plausible.
In fact they had all become close friends by association whereby the Japanese men relied entirely upon Alessandro Santi to undertake whatever was necessary with other persons known to Alessandro Santi engaged as, or operating as “Financial Brokers”.
The Italian police had no option but to charge Alessandro Santi under criminal law, with accomplice to a crime, being in possession of Financial Instruments which were assumed at this stage to be fake and fraudulent instruments, and attempting to commit fraud in conjunction with others. The realisation of Santi’s criminal activities, in conjunction with Yamaguchi and Watanabe had suddenly come to life, and he was about to suffer for it.
All three persons, Mitsuyoshi Watanabe, Akihiko Yamaguchi, and Alessandro Santi were charged to appear in Court for indictment on June 27th 2009.