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 No explanation was given as to how the counterfeiters obtained the unpublished bar serial numbers, nor the likely benefit of counterfeiting stolen property in this way.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
Kruger Millions War somewhere between 1899 and 1902. Kruger Millions The Kruger Millions is a hoard of gold reputed to have been hidden in South Africa by or on behalf of President Paul Kruger to avoid it being captured by the British during the Boer war. According to myth, about two million pounds in buried gold and diamonds lie hidden in the Blyde River area in the province of Mpumalanga. The treasure is said to consist of hidden gold and coins worth more than US $500,000,000 in today’s terms. Allegedly the treasure was hidden by or for President Paul Kruger at the