No matter where you buy your gold and regardless of the country’s stamp on it, the very nature of the gold trade makes it extremely difficult to guarantee where it originated from. Here are six key takeaways from Gold Mafia: Once gold bars are stamped in London or Switzerland, they become very marketable Clean gold? There’s no such thing And it identifies the global nature of these crimes, in which gold smuggled from one nation could end up in the form of cash deposited in offshore accounts of front companies halfway across the world.
The investigation also exposes the involvement of high-ranking officials from Zimbabwe in smuggling and money laundering, which help the country get around the crippling grip of Western sanctions.
Keep reading list of 4 items list 1 of 4 Swiss gold or smuggled Zimbabwean gold? No one knows list 2 of 4 How a ‘Gold Mafia’ is looting Southern Africa, washing dirty cash list 3 of 4 What draws the gold mafia to Dubai? list 4 of 4 Who are the Gold Mafia? A cigarette don and a man named ‘Dollars’ end of list
