Yeah - this was the part of the plan I had problems with. Presuming the marked bills are not sequential, it doesn't stand up to logic.

With the now known leak in the treasury office this may take some steam out of that sail, or explain it off the strike team.

Very good point. It would stand to reason that the insider at Treasury tipped the real theives to the list of marked bills and they pinned them on a patsy. In any case, that injects enough of a variable to wildly throw off the scent.

The inside guy at the treasury is working for the Armenians. That theory makes no sense at all. He found out who really stole it, told them, then turned around and told the Armenians the fake one? Why? So they would kill the fake one and give away his position?