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BBC NEWS | Africa | Fake fears over Ethiopia's gold


Fake fears over Ethiopia's gold

By Elizabeth Blunt
BBC News, Addis Ababa

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Ethiopia's national bank has
been told to inspect all the gold in its vaults to determine its authenticity.


It follows the discovery that some of the "gold" it had bought for millions of dollars was gold-plated steel. :rofl:

The first hint that something was wrong reportedly came when the Ethiopian central bank exported a consignment of gold bars to South Africa.
The South Africans sent them back, complaining that they had been sold gilded steel. An investigation revealed that the bank had bought a consignment of fake gold from a supplier, who is now under arrest.




Go on - can you better this?