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The Bank of England has received more than £9billion in gold after the Netherlands’ central bank relocated the vast sum from North America to London amid surging "geopolitical unrest".

Ugandan police have arrested 16 people, including four police officers, for their alleged involvement in a fake gold scam that defrauded a Dubai businessman of $4 million, the Uganda Police Force stated.

A new Europol report reveals that criminal gangs in Europe are increasingly turning to violent, direct force to breach museums as they target precious metals and jewels that can be easily liquidated.

Stunned builders stumbled upon a hidden £7.5million gold haul stashed inside the walls of a cellar – and admitted they were very tempted to keep it.

Venezuela is demanding $4billion in gold stashed away in the Bank of England to navigate its way out of the catastrophic earthquakes.

Several of Russia’s richest people including some close to President Vladimir Putin have moved billions of dollars abroad in the past year after growing concerned about the country’s economy and the government budget.

Days after clawing back a staggering $47 million in commercial assets, Iraqi investigators uncovered yet another cache of gold jewelry and cash in probing former deputy oil minister

After a raid on his home uncovered 74 kilograms of gold and $15 million in cash, former Deputy Attorney General Febrie Adriansyah faces prosecution by his own former agency over a massive coal-procurement scheme linked to widespread power failures and military intimidation.

Several hundred Wagner fighters remain based along the upper Oubangui River in the Central African Republic, where they run a drug trade built around tramadol, an opioid painkiller that becomes a potent stimulant at high doses.

A relatively low-profile Emirati company, Sigma Mining, is reportedly playing an increasingly significant role in the gold sector of the Central African Republic (CAR), reflecting the growing presence of Gulf-linked trading firms in Africa’s mineral economy.

Prosecutors unveil artefact linked to lost Dacian civilisation after it was stolen from Dutch museum last year.

Tether has been accumulating gold in a former nuclear bunker in Switzerland, which its chief executive described as a “James Bond kind of place.”

The turboprop aircraft was supposed to land in Miami by 4 p.m., early enough for its valuable cargo to continue on to Zurich the same day.

Under repeated assaults from hundreds of excavators and artisanal miners, the Offin River is now a shadow of its former self.

The leader of a traveler family was laid to rest in a solid gold coffin in South London.

Researchers believe the site in the Netherlands might have been used for pagan worship as a reaction to the spread of Christianity.

A former deep-sea treasure hunter and research scientist jailed for refusing to disclose the location of 500 missing gold coins may soon be released, after a judge ended the charge, stating he "no longer is convinced that further incarceration is likely to coerce compliance."

Gold prices jumped to a record high on Monday as Donald Trump launched trade tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China. The yellow metal peaked at $2,830.31 per ounce on Monday afternoon, as investors put money into the ’safe-haven’ asset.

Phone video shared by mining NGO appears to show dozens of wrapped bodies in underground tunnel.

Reform party leader promoting gold for Direct Bullion alongside his jobs as MP and presenter for GB News

Harley Sandoval, an evangelical pastor, real estate agent and mining entrepreneur, was arrested in July 2023 for illegally exporting 294 kilos of gold from Brazil’s Amazon to the United States, Dubai and Italy.

The United Arab Emirates suspended this week operations in 32 of its gold refineries after inspections revealed that its gold sector had committed hundreds of anti-money laundering violations.

A private jet at the center of a mysterious fake gold smuggling case in Zambia belongs to Ibrahim al-Organi, an Egyptian tycoon and leader of a large tribe who was once jailed during Bedouin protests...

Ecuador has shown severe inconsistencies between its official production of gold of known origin and its exports.

Gold is famously seen as a ’safe haven’ for investors