BBC News Wednesday, 14 May, 2003, 16:07 GMT 17:07 UK
No BBC shares to be found here
A couple in southern Japan have been arrested after making half a million pounds by selling fake shares in the BBC, reports say.
...BBC has very strong brand recognition in Japan," he [[Seijiro Takeshita, senior strategist at Mizuho Bank in London]] said. "The BBC's not even listed of course, so it should have been easy to disprove. "But it does depict the amazing belief in brands in Japan," he said.
