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🗓️ 1 June 2024
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It was the biggest gold mine fraud of all time – a scam that devastated countless lives. But what really happened? Suzanne Wilton revisits the story that she just couldn’t let go of, to find answers about how the scam was perpetrated…and about the mysterious death of a geologist in the jungle. From the BBC World Service and CBC. To hear more, search for The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam wherever you get your podcasts.
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0:00.0 | My name is Suzanne Wilton. |
0:02.0 | And 25 years ago, I traveled from Canada to the Borneo Jungle |
0:07.0 | to investigate a gold discovery. |
0:10.0 | A small Canadian mining company from my hometown of Calgary called Briex |
0:15.2 | sold the world a six billion dollar gold deposit. |
0:19.4 | We were all as jealous as hell. |
0:21.8 | It was that Briex had found the one we all hoped to find. |
0:25.0 | There was a frenzy and a sense of greed that I have not seen since in the markets. |
0:31.0 | The greed at the time was just off the charts. So much money at stake |
0:36.8 | and so much money to be made and so many dreams that people couldn't let go of. |
0:41.1 | But it was too good to be true. |
0:45.6 | As a geologist, you learned something very early on. |
0:48.8 | And that is you don't fool nature. |
0:51.4 | You only fool people. Nature comes back at you. |
0:55.0 | Thousands of people were conned. It destroyed lives, |
1:00.0 | devastated families and communities. |
1:03.0 | We lost everything. |
1:05.0 | Our husband was sick for four years. |
1:08.0 | We worked hard for our money. |
1:09.0 | Do you realize how many shareholders in Canada, you know every little town across the |
1:15.2 | nation people have shares in this. It's an awful feeling of a tragic moment. |
1:24.0 | After all these years, no one has been brought to justice. |
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