Fake ingots distinguish from the real thing, you can only close examination
A few gold bars worth more than $ 5 million hryvnia (312.5 thousand dollars) in the Odessa National Bank vault were checking conventional lead covered with gold paint. This was “news” to the press service of the State Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Odessa region. The exact amount of ingots of lead, which are issued for real, is still not found – conducted the examination.
As the “lead” a high-ranking sources in the Odessa Police, scam cranked for a few months – from August to October: “Fraudsters produced fake bank ingots of lead. After that passed their accomplices, cashier department of the National Bank in the cafe across the street. He carries them in the store and designed as buying scrap, putting copies of the documents forged passports sellers ».
On the substitution of gold became known after a routine inspection at the end of October. In early November, the National Bank began an internal investigation and upon substitution of ingots fired branch manager. However, the police decided to draw later – the criminal proceedings opened only on November 19.
«Suspect in substitution of ingots Yuri N. immediately after the disclosure of fraud disappeared. His family and parents stayed in Odessa. By the way, fake ingots were produced very high quality – but on closer inspection they can be distinguished from the real thing, “- said” lead “a source in the Interior Ministry.
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