While the story never aired on American TV, it is available on the Internet.
In October of 2009 the Chinese received a shipment of gold bars. Gold is regularly exchanges between countries to pay debts and to settle the so-called balance of trade. Most gold is exchanged and stored in vaults under the supervision of a special organization based in London, the London Bullion Market Association (or LBMA). When the shipment was received, the Chinese government asked that special tests be performed to guarantee the purity and weight of the gold bars. In this test, four small holed are drilled into the gold bars and the metal is then analyzed.
Officials were shocked to learn that the bars were fake. They contained cores of tungsten with only an outer coating of real gold. There were reportedly between 5,600 to 5,700 bars, weighing 400 oz. each, in the shipment recently received from bonded warehouses. What's more, these gold bars, containing serial numbers for tracking, originated in the US and had been stored in Fort Knox for years.
According to the Chinese investigators, roughly 20 years ago - during the Clinton Administration [think Robert Rubin, Sir Alan Greenspan and Lawrence Summers] - between 1.3 and 1.5 million 400 oz tungsten blanks [>16000 metric tonnes] were allegedly manufactured by a very high-end, sophisticated refiner in the USA . Subsequently, 640,000 of these tungsten blanks received their gold plating and were shipped to Ft. Knox and remain there to this day.
Интересно, чем всё дело кончилось? После 2012 года в инете - полный штиль. Такое ощущение, что счастливые обладатели этого добра (наши тоже наверняка отметились на этом поприще!) почесали репы, потосковали, да и постановили впредь... считать слитки золотыми.
Код: Выделить всё
http://www.viewzone.com/fakegold.html
http://www.dailypaul.com/114500/gold-faked-with-tungsten-oh-its-worse
https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/gold-fraud-exclusive-eu-and-asian-sources-allege-the-tungsten-switch-has-gone-sovereign/
https://youtu.be/pbxwTgxPzJk
https://youtu.be/mwfNWX6iqV4
На случай если перечисленные выше ссылки сдохнут:
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/19/13963728-counterfeit-gold-bars-discovered-in-new-york-city?lite
http://beforeitsnews.com/banksters/2012/09/chinese-discovered-fake-gold-bars-of-tungsten-in-2009-2431960.html
http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.ru/2012/09/the-tungsten-filled-gold-bar-scam-is.html
http://www.sott.net/article/197099-GLD-ETF-Warning-Tungsten-Filled-Fake-Gold-Bars
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1258049769.php
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/gold_bar_scam_215.html
http://www.24hgold.com/english/news-gold-silver-zinc-dimes-tungsten-gold--lost-respect.aspx?article=2459973994G10020&redirect=false&contributor=Jim+Willie+CB