Brink's-Mat robbery bullion bars bearing the refiner's mark and serial numbers of bars stolen in the Brink's-Mat robbery. According to the police spokesman, the bars were gold-coated tungsten counterfeits, and therefore could not be Johnson Matthey's stolen gold bars. He said that the arrested men planned to fraudulently claim they were from the Heathrow robbery. No explanation was given as to how the counterfeiters obtained the unpublished bar serial numbers, nor the likely benefit of counterfeiting stolen property in this way. A person named Gordon Parry laundered large amounts of cash from the robbery after the disposal of the gold according to
Treasure hunting Mogul, at Delhi, India. In 1952, British recovered almost one million dollars' worth of the $5.3 million loot and hid in Brazil to escape the British Government's tax. The liner "Laurentic" heading from Liverpool to Halifax in 1917 collided into a mine and sunk with gold worth five million British pounds. Lieutenant Commander G.C.C. Damant was appointed to salvage the ship by the Admiralty. Commander Damant aided by Dr. J.S. Haldane and A.Y. Cattoo discovered the cause and prevention of caisson disease ("the bends") allowing them to make deep dives. Over seven seasons, all but 25 gold bars were recovered