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Gold/Mining/Energy : BRE-X, Indonesia, Ashanti Goldfields, Strong Companies. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: M0NEYMADE who wrote (28251)	7/11/2004 1:15:17 AM
From: M0NEYMADE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28369

"Suahrto family had engineered the salting of the Bre-X gold mine drill samples in Indonesia with gold to make it appear that gold quantities were sufficiently high to make it the most profitable gold mine of the 20th century. The geologist was pushed out of a helicopter, the death conveniently ruled an "accident" by corrupt Indonesian authorities. As it turned out, it ended up being the world's biggest mining scam, bringing down a huge Canadian mining venture, incriminating its naive owners who had little understanding of Indonesia's real business practices and who in fact were the unwitting black sheep in this scam perpetrated by one of the world's most powerful families, and causing many investors to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. Had the operation gone ahead, the Suharto family would have made billions of dollars in profits selling the inflated stock before anyone found out about the truth. Bjornstrom, however, knew the truth and Tommy had put out a contract to have him killed. Hence, he escaped from prison to hide out in the thick forest in British Columbia where he was sure that Indonesian hitmen from the country's secret service could not get him. As it was, even Canadian authorities with good knowledge of the forest and its difficult conditions had a very difficult time in capturing him and the capture ultimately involved a ruse using his sister. The south Jakarta house where police arrested Tommy. He was sleeping at the time and did not resist arrest, said police. Since the jail break, Bjornstrom had roamed the shorelines, hills and high alpine ranges of the north Shuswap, eking out an existence on goods plundered from summer cabins. He stole food and other items useful for survival in the country's deep and unforgiving bush. He did leave messages on cassette tapes explaining why he was doing what he did and they were not threatening to anyone. He did explain in his clandestine communications left to the cabin owners that if he returned to jail the Indonesians would arrange to have him killed because he knew too much about the Suharto family's strategy for the ill-fated mining venture. Bjornstrom said he was afraid for his life because he had the knowledge of the events that led to the collapse of the Bre-X company and that there was a reward from Tommy to see his extinction. Indonesian police confirmed the truth to Bjornstrom's story in the press conference. geocities.com