The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam: 6. The end of the bonanza
World of Secrets
BBC
4.7 • 765 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
With Bre-X stock halted on the financial markets, the company goes into meltdown. A terrible truth emerges and a scam on an epic scale is revealed. Investors are set to lose millions and entire pension funds will be wiped out. A golden dream turns into a waking nightmare.
Please note, this episode contains difficult subject matter, including references to suicide, and contains some graphic content.
The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam was first published in May 2024.
The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam is made by BBC Scotland Productions for the BBC World Service and CBC
Presenter: Suzanne Wilton Lead Producer: Kate Bissell Producers: Anna Miles and Mark Rickards Research: Tom Hinckley Story consultant: Jack Kibble-White Music and Sound design: Hannis Brown Additional Sound Design + Audio Mix: Joel Cox Executive Editor: Heather Kane-Darling CBC Senior Producers: Veronica Simmonds and Willow Smith CBC Executive Producers: Chris Oke and Cesil Fernandes BBC Commissioning Senior Producer: Anne Dixey BBC Commissioning Editor: Jon Manel
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| 0:38.2 | From the BBC's Investigations podcast World of Secrets, here's the sixth episode of our guest |
| 0:44.1 | season, the $6 billion gold scam from the BBC World Service and CBC. Over to Suzanne Wilton. |
| 0:53.7 | First, a warning. |
| 0:55.9 | The following episode contains difficult subject matter, including references to suicide. |
| 1:05.1 | In the immediate aftermath of de Guzman's fall, things were chaotic. |
| 1:11.9 | Lawyer Tom Ajame heard here in the Break's tapes was trying to investigate what had happened |
| 1:19.0 | on behalf of Break's shareholders. |
| 1:22.3 | Do you have an active theory about the Guzman? |
| 1:27.8 | I really don't. |
| 1:29.3 | I mean, just speculation at this point, from what I've talked to all my people about |
| 1:33.3 | Indonesia, about a lot of people that I know, think suicide and some possibly think |
| 1:39.9 | he was killed. |
| 1:42.3 | Freeport President Jim Bob Moffitt needed time to find out exactly what had been going on at |
| 1:49.4 | Bouseng. |
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