Canadian Mint Gold Heist!
Posted by the dood on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Well, not really.. but maybe. Either way, a significant amount of Gold and Silver has gone missing from the Canadian Mint, or someone made a gross miscalculation when they weighed it last.
The Canadian mint is now conducting an external audit of all financial records to determine the reason for the discrepancy. The mint is no stranger to theft… the largest recorded theft from the mint according to Vancouver Sun was in 1996 when a worker at the plant pocketed 85 ounces of pure gold, and sold it for $8000. In today’s market, that amount of gold would be worth approximately $82,000US.
[…] this month I reported that there was a possible Gold Heist at the Canadian Mint. It appears now that the third-party audit conducted by Deloitte and Touche has discovered that […]