Backstory: Tracking Africa’s smuggled gold - Reuters:
It took Reuters journalists a few days of research to work out that the numbers coming out of Africa’s vast gold trade did not add up.
It then took almost another 15 months - and the contributions of colleagues and analysts across the world - to show how those discrepancies pointed to a vast web of smuggling operations, reaching from the pit mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo across the continent to the Gulf.
Reuters has now published the first results of all that work – an exclusive report on the billions of dollars' worth of gold spirited out of Africa every year through the United Arab Emirates, a gateway to markets in Europe, the United States and beyond. (here)
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