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Shaun Attwoods True Crime Podcast

Gold Smuggling In Nepal: Piers Hernu - Locked Up Abroad | True Crime Podcast 415

Shaun Attwoods True Crime Podcast

Shaun Attwood Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Piers Hernu, a dual British-French traveller, is arrested trying to smuggle 28 kilos of gold bullion from Hong Kong to Nepal.

Transcript

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So, if you watch Bang the Broad, lots of abroad in America, the episode The Gold Smuggler

0:38.6

is here with us in the studio today, peers has come down from Camden, and we're going

0:44.7

to get into more of the story and what he's been doing since the episode.

0:49.1

So what the hell were you doing in the poll in the first place?

0:55.2

I was attempting to smuggle some gold from Hong Kong to Nepal with three other friends

1:08.2

that I'd met in Hong Kong, and we all had four stone, four pounds each of gold, which

1:18.6

have been given to us at the airport in Hong Kong in the toilets, and it was in a sort

1:28.4

of multipoccuited denim waistcoat, which we wore under a shirt, and I think we put suit

1:34.5

jacket on as well, and yeah, it was quite heavy, because I was about 12 stone at the time,

1:39.8

and I suddenly was 16 stone, and fourth stone of that was gold, and you know, we were

1:48.5

told that we just had to sort of sit on the plane and go through gate six or something

1:56.6

like that, where a woman in a purple sari would wave us through, and we would get $2,000.

2:05.6

Who's telling you this?

2:09.6

This was the American guy who was a sort of ringleader of us four.

2:16.7

He had done this run before, and you know, he had done it successfully, and been paid,

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