millions in gold and silver found in Sydney

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  1. Philski

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    Philski, Dec 29, 2011
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    Wow, big haul. Nice lot a pamp suisse bars in amongst it.
     
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    holy moly
     
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    3 boxes of kilo pamp bars :)
     
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    This is the third post about this ,the first two disappeared quickly

    Hint
     
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    having a cup or two too many, so early on 2012 NEW YEAR already :p
     
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    spannermonkey Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    One CAN NOT bottle beer without drinking beer at the same time. :D
     
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    sorry i didnt see the other posts. i did look/
     
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    Well if two of us couldn't see it,
    It must not have happened
    I thought the boss erased it .:|
     
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    Nice closeup of some PAMP serial numbers there. One benefit to owning Certicards etc - proving they're yours when they're co-mingled with a bunch of stolen loot :/
     
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    Those bags of cash resemble the one's I had stolen (but didn't report) a few months ago......
     
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    I thought the same thing as well, however how many dealers/sellers actually mark the serials on the invoice ? Never bought Pamps so not sure.
     
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    WOW, wonder how they pulled all off that off. Stealing $4million in cash cant be that easy lol
     
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    There is a lot of intelligence needed in this heist.

    To get 120kg of silver bullion requires knowledge of who owns it and where it is stored.

    There was also a great deal of skill needed to burgle the safes without leaving a trace.

    They also burgled safe deposit boxes to the tune of $450,000 (anyone willing to guess which company?)

    Why were the certificates in the PAMP boxes but the boxes were open? This is how they are stored in bullion dealers for individual bar sales...

    I believe these men were in allegiance with people who either sell bullion, are custodians of safe deposit boxes or install safes.

    I trust none of you have your storage address noted with any bullion dealers?

    I trust no one has safes installed by employees? (they are, afterall just handymen earning a wage).

    I trust no one
     
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    once again if sin=greed hadnt of got in the way these guys could have been set for life. Someone from the storage facility has obviously sniffed about or the cops had been staking them out for a while. Agrred though Rothbard very professional setup, thats why you should insist that ID be presented before you can access you SDB
     
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    The facility was Kennards - it was disclosed earlier today in the media. Something like 36 lockers were opened - they are advertised as safe deposit boxes, so no doubt there were people using them for "bulk" PM storage.

    I note that the Kennards website has been recently updated to remove the advertising of this service from the affected Ivanhoe location.
     
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    I'd be willing to bet there is more to this story...
     
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    Heaps more no doubt - there is a court case in March.
     
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