Trailer: The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam

The Lazarus Heist

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

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	A six billion dollar con. It didn't take long for it to spread like wildfire.
0:07.6	You got to take a look at this really crazy gold stock.
0:09.4	A buddy of mine got in at a dime.
0:10.8	Which destroyed lives and devastated communities.
0:15.0	Every little town across the nation, people have shares in this.
0:19.5	We lost everything.
0:21.4	And to date, no one has been brought to justice.
0:25.0	Somebody knows more than we know.
0:27.0	The $6 billion gold scan.
0:29.0	Listen first on BBC Sounds. My name is Suzanne Wilton. and 25 years ago I traveled from
0:35.0	years ago I traveled from Canada to the Borneo Jungle to investigate a gold
0:42.4	discovery.
0:44.0	A small Canadian mining company from my hometown of Calgary,
0:48.0	called Briex, sold the world a $6 billion dollar gold deposit. We were all as jealous as hell. It was
0:56.0	pre-X had found the one we all hoped to find. There was a frenzy and a sense of
1:01.4	greed that I have not seen since in the markets.
1:05.0	The greed at the time was just off the charts.
1:09.0	So much money at stake and so much money to be made and so many dreams that people
1:13.7	couldn't let go of. But it was too good to be true. As a geologist you
1:20.4	learn something very early on and that is you don't fool nature you only
1:25.6	fool people nature comes back at you. Thousands of people were con. It destroyed lives, devastated families and communities.
1:37.0	We lost everything.
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