Advice needed - 22Kgs of Investment quality gold coming into Australia

Hi,

I have a very interesting situation happening. My fianc has received an inheritance from her late father in the form of 22Kgs of gold bullion. The problems come it is that she is from Ghana. She has only an inheritance document stating that the gold was her property now. She managed to leave Ghana on Sunday night but got detained at Heathrow for the gold had no legal ownership or change of ownership from her father's name.

The gold cannot be returned to Ghana without attracting serious questions that really cannot be answered. So it appears the only practical answer is to have the gold transferred into my name and I take on full ownership of the gold. This is being done in Ghana now. My question then is as the owner of this gold and it is being transported by my fianc, she will have to declare it. Any idea what happens from there? Is there any way we could be penalised for anything? Is VAT still payable in Ghana? At any rate I welcome a discussion on this as I am very torn up about this.

Thank you in advance.

 

LOL this is funny story... Pics so I can laugh more pls

 

Hire a container to send your 22kg back on, maybe get a lawyer too! Maybe easier to post than get through customs?

 

I am afraid, if she failed to declare this gold it may very likely confiscated and chances to recover it are very slim in my opinion. She may face all sorts of legal trouble, perhaps been accused been a mule, money laundering, drugs- you name it. If the gold can be recovered it will likely cost a bit in legal fees and perhaps some custom fees.
Generally gold of such quantity is to be transported by Brinks company only. Customs are very sensitive if one transports gold in larger qty without using the 'official' Brinks type companies.

 

Send me your bank account details. You send me the value of the gold to my account and I'll bankwire transfer the value back when you are back in Ghana, that way to don't have to worry about going back through customs.

 

When I got my Ghandan gold inheritance, I had only paid for 15kg of luggage and the excess baggage fees were huge,
so I just left my remaining gold and passport details with the customs guys there, they were very trustworthy and another passenger bought it through and delivered it to me a day later. hope this helps

 

Yes, yes, yes.

Send the cash amount in full, often when you do this, the amount you will receive in return is much higher due to government death rebates, no paper work required here. The government will give a return of 300% so you will get back 4x your money. That way instead of having 22kg of gold you can have 88kg, much better.

This information was provided by Humanitarians Association for Ghana.

However you must be quick the government is considering changing the rules any day now.

 

:lol:
Pigs ass any of this is true

 

Still more believable than a 1kg series I gold Lunar Tiger though

 

Guys some helpful real discussion would be appreciated. An update, it looks like the purity may be only 22 Carat.

 

Just be completely honest with the authorities. Pay any VAT or duties and treat whatever you get as a lucky windfall. No point asking us. An accountant familiar with applicable laws would provide far better advice.

 

I guess you meet your Girlfriend in the net. Now she said she have some gold.
Need your help to bring her gold back.
She have no monies to pay for all that. ie Legal fees, customs fees, other thing as well.

Beware this is all Scams.

Do not send any monies or any involvement in this.

 

There's your problem right there... colour seems a little off.

 

LOL I hope he verified at least that his girlfriend is a girl!!!

 

Your story sounds like BS
It doesn't even make sense
If there is any truth to your story , you should have done your homework first instead of "just trying to get it through customs "
How the hell are any of us suppose to know if there is tax to be collected in Ghana ?
Your the one trying to get it out
I know of a few people who import gold legally out of Africa

 

He himself may have fallen for some scam. We need more details of this relationship! It's all sounding like a typical scam.

 

Kiss yours monies Good Bye, if you choose to send any amount, as they will ask for more and more.
With different kinds of excuses.


These are the examples

Honey I am sick.... please send me some monies
Now I am in Jail...

The customs need bribes to take the gold out...

I have to go for a surgery...

I have no monies to buy foods...

I am CEO of Barclay bank, we need to ship 5 suit cases of gold... we need your help to assisting with foreign ambassador
please send US $5k to cleared the customs fee

and the stories goes on...

Wait you haven't meet yours girlfriend right...

SCAMMERS BEWARE

 

This smells like a scam. In all likelihood it is.

Do not send money to release the Gold.

Have you ever met your fiance face to face in person?

https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/types-of-scams/dating-romance
https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/types-of-scams/unexpected-money/nigerian-scams
https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/types-of-scams/unexpected-money/inheritance-scams

 

This line threw me a bit.

I thought for sure the OP had just posted in the wrong forum and the thread belonged in the JOTD.

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