"A year later, the police came to his house and confiscated it. He later was able to buy it back at auction, but it cost him about the same amount that he'd paid for it originally. The R.C.M.P. had heard from Canada Customs, who had been in communication with the U.S. authorities, who had been comparing sales receipts with customs declarations, and found that that purchase didn't match up."

Forgive my skepticism.

The ammount of detective work which this would have entailed, not to mention the co-operation between the various bureaucracies, would have been sufficient to track down Bin Laden, never mind a banjo ....

Murray