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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold Price Monitor
GDXJ 90.47+0.5%Nov 6 4:00 PM EST

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To: E. Charters who wrote (76488)9/14/2001 3:57:06 PM
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Gold goes missing on flight to US



"The boxes were opened by the FBI and US Customs and they found some wood carvings and other scrap"


The search is on for£1 million worth of missing gold dust. The material was being shipped to Utah on an Air France jet.

When the plane that arrived at O'Hare International Airport, in Chicago the unrefined gold was not on board according to investigators from America's Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Bound for a refinery in Utah, the gold was shipped in five metal boxes from the west African nation of Benin.

Only three boxes were found in the Air France terminal, and those were not the same boxes used initially to ship the gold, the Chicago Police Department said.

"The boxes were opened by the FBI and US Customs and they found some wood carvings and other scrap," said Chicago Police Sgt. Robert Cargie.

The shippers have an invoice showing they sent five metal boxes out of Africa, but Air France has an air bill indicating it handled only three boxes from Paris.

Billing records show the gold was originally shipped via Air Afrique on Oct. 23 from the coastal town of Cotonou, Benin.

The flight stopped in Lagos, Nigeria before heading north to Paris.

The shipment of gold - about 550 pounds - remained in Paris for two days before being loaded onto a non-stop Air France flight for Chicago, according to the FBI.

No arrests have been made in the case, the FBI said.

itn.co.uk
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