The Great Canadian Gold Heist
Mint can't account for missing gold
"OTTAWA — A significant quantity of gold, silver and other precious metals is unaccounted for at the Royal Canadian Mint.
External auditors are investigating a discrepancy between the mint's 2008 financial accounting of its precious metals holdings and the physical stockpile at the plant on Sussex Drive in Ottawa.
The mystery raises possibilities from sloppy bookkeeping to a gold heist.
Officials with the commercial Crown corporation are saying little and refuse to confirm the amount and value of the unaccounted for gold, silver and palladium." blah blah
Better audit Fort Knox.
posted by nolocontendere at 8:38 AM
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Audit raises spectre of massive mint heist Government slams 'inexcusable' loss of gold worth $19M in current prices
By Ian MacLeod, The Ottawa CitizenJune 30, 2009
"The results of the long-awaited independent audit found no accounting, bookkeeping or other internal errors to account for 17,514 troy ounces of gold missing from the mint's Sussex Drive inventory. That's the equivalent of almost 44, 400-ounce bars and worth $19 million in today's prices.
A further but undisclosed quantity of silver also is missing."
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