[MSN] Canada. Stash of cash missing from currency museum.

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Stash of cash missing from currency museum
  
The Edmonton Journal 


Monday, April 30, 2007


OTTAWA - Someone has helped themselves to a few choice specimens from the
Bank of Canada's currency museum, newly released documents show.

Bank officials are short about $16,700 following the unsolved theft at the
central bank's popular tourist attraction.

"There is no plausible explanation for the discrepancy other than theft,"
says an internal audit obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to
Information Act.

"The procedures for note holdings should have been stronger ... some of the
procedures that did exist were not followed."

The missing money came not from the display cases, but disappeared from a
stash of cash the museum uses to help teach visitors about counterfeit
currency.

The so-called note exchange program allowed patrons to swap their old-style
bills for new-series money with special security features designed to thwart
counterfeiters.

The popular program, created in 2001, has been abruptly cancelled in the
wake of the currency caper.

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