Kazakhs Hunt for 'Radioactive Dollars'-Borat Denies Everything

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Kazakhs Hunt for 'Radioactive Dollars'

Kazakhstan is on a nationwide hunt for dozens of "radioactive dollars" circulating in the country's financial system.

The Kazakh central bank said in a letter to financial institutions the radiation level of the U.S. dollar notes was 100 times above normal. A Kazakh citizen brought them into the country in November, it said...

"(The dollars) pose a direct threat to people's health," said the letter, obtained by Reuters on Wednesday.

It was not clear how the money, nearly $4,000 in 100-dollar and 50-dollar bills, got contaminated.

The Soviet Union used Kazakhstan, a vast Central Asian state, the for many decades as a testing ground for nuclear weapons after it detonated its first plutonium bomb in 1954.

Waxingamerica has emphatic denials from Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) that he had nothing to do with the contamination, recently working on his film project,. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby .

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