Thieves steal $1 million of silver bullion off truck destined for Melbourne

Given the pics provided that bar and packaging looks like a Sydney based silver refiner's product, with their logo removed to possibly protect refiner identity. I could be wrong but same bar pic from their site.

Can't see any one touching those size bars for a while for fear of receiving stolen goods.
 
easily recognisable bars…unfortunately, no serials..
inside job… 5KG piece is harder to move…
 
Darwin said:
Not after they get melted down into smaller bars...
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Even if they melt them down into smaller bars it will still raise suspicions if someone all of a sudden starts selling nearly 1000 kg
of anonymous no-name bars.

I think the heist was pulled off by someone in the precious metals game or someone who has contacts in the refining of precious metals,
where the bars could be slowly added over time into the melts of legitimate junk silver purchases without arousing suspicion.
 
Silver shot may not raise as much suspicion...

If they're brazen enough to make off with nearly a tonne of metal, I figure they're probably brazen enough to also copy a brand to mark the new bars with.
Or, and this is much more likely, they already have a source to move them on.

But I do agree with you wholeheartedly in that it's sure to be somebody with inside knowledge who was involved at least to some extent - it's just too coincidental to be otherwise.
 
Question: If you were the legit purchaser / seller or just moving your bars around for whatever reason, why with that value of silver would you not use a secure courier service???

Seems a bit strange to send that value / weight of silver on a general interstate truck. Could be more to this as time goes on.
 
I've used Gray Nomad's in the past. They move anything, anywhere, no questions asked for the price of a teacake, slab of beer & bot of Bodega. Best of all, they never leave the motorhome unattended.

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silverhair said:
certainly smells like an inside job.
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And given it was not being transported by armoured car, it smells like an insurance fraud job to me too.

That begs the question whether you could insure anything like that without using armoured car service
 
66rounds said:
And given it was not being transported by armoured car, it smells like an insurance fraud job to me too
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I'm wondering if it was in just your average truck in an effort to not attract attention...
An attempt at being inconspicuous.
Clearly it didn't work o_O
 
Darwin said:
I'm wondering if it was in just your average truck in an effort to not attract attention...
An attempt at being inconspicuous.
Clearly it didn't work o_O
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Fair question and flying under the radar has it merits, however I can't see a large Australian refiner ringing up their insurer to add a shipment of metals to a policy and when asked who is transporting the metals.."Oh a nondescript semi owned by Fred the truckie looking for a backload to Melbourne"...........Insurer says NO.
 
It's possible it was a self driven delivery, but that points squarely at it being an inside job (without any possibility of it being anything else).
960kg is a little too large a shipment to move without insurance, I'm at a loss even thinking of a way it could've been decided that transporting it without armed escort was at all a good idea...
 
Darwin said:
It's possible it was a self driven delivery, but that points squarely at it being an inside job (without any possibility of it being anything else).
960kg is a little too large a shipment to move without insurance, I'm at a loss even thinking of a way it could've been decided that transporting it without armed escort was at all a good idea...
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I've seen heroes at wallstreetsilver taking photos of 20+ monster boxes on the back of a ute
 
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