NGO reports illegal gold imports by refiner
Swiss and Peruvian authorities are working on a case involving Neuchâtel refiner Metalor, which is suspected of money laundering and the purchase of illegal gold, according to a Swiss NGO. Metalor rejects the accusations. The Bern-based Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) published a report on Wednesday claiming that the major refiner continued to import illegally produced gold from Peru even after that country took widespread measures forbidding production by most of the country’s estimated 100,000 wildcat miners. Читать дальше...