“It’s a country with no gold of its own—yet until recently, Switzerland refined nearly 70% of the world’s gold. That share may have dropped to around 50%, but it remains the global hub for gold refining. That alone raises serious questions.”
In this interview released to OCCRP, Mark Pieth, author of Gold Laundering and one of the leading experts on illicit gold flows, answers five key questions about an investigation I spent nearly a year on.
It traces a multibillion-dollar opaque gold trade #Venezuela, #Curaçao, and #Switzerland.
https://www.occrp.org/en/feature/five-questions-on-the-gold-trade
#InvestigativeJournalism #GoldTrade #MoneyLaundering #SupplyChains #Curaçao #Transparency #DirtyGold
