The Gold: The real story behind Brink’s-Mat: Britain’s biggest heist

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For obvious reasons, I don’t know exactly and it’s never been shown how deep those connections went. The narrator is like one of those panhandlers who stop you on the street and provides too long a story about some travail: my mom and I were just mugged they took her to the hospital and I need to get to New Jersey to tell my dad who’s deaf but first I have to get to the hospital which is like a thirty minute cab ride away in Brooklyn and she needs this medication that was in her purse which got stolen but I didn’t get a chance to tell the EMTs about so I have to find a Duane Reade and get the prescription filled which costs about fifteen dollars if you could just help me out with part of it I’ll pay you back like tomorrow I have my address and phone number written down here I am really embarrassed and would never ever ask a stranger for help like this but this was our first ever trip to New York City and we never thought anything like this still happened but…. Even though we all saw him sweating over that smelter in a terrycloth robe, cig hanging from his mouth, just a few episodes earlier. Victoria Tyson is a director and a specialist international construction lawyer qualified to practise in England and Wales and Hong Kong. In The Gold, the investment of laundered money in the Docklands redevelopment is a handy thematic hook – the idea of new money literally changing the face of London.

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Even with the villains (well, some of them) having served time – including smelting and laundering chancer, Kenneth Noye (Jack Lowden) – there are still unanswered questions about what really happened. As I read the reviews I am fascinated by the fact that I agree with aspects of many of them, whether they rate the book one, two, three, or even four stars. They could get back into Rotherhithe and Old Kent Road quickly and they were familiar with it,” says Ramm. It is a co-production between Tannadice Pictures, an Objective Fiction partner, and VIS, a division of ViacomCBS for BBC One and BBC iPlayer.As the series goes on, McAvoy becomes concerned about the safety of his share of the loot, which was also true. Because--what if that particular goldfinch (and it is very particular) had never been captured or born into captivity, displayed in some household where the painter Fabritius was able to see it? Woody Brown, writing in Art Voice, described The Goldfinch as a "marvelous, epic tale, one whose 773 beautiful pages say, in short: 'How can we? Following a failed attempt by the Spanish police to arrest Palmer in Tenerife, the UK extradites him from Brazil.

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That’s one of the few truly justified speeches in a script with far too many – about three per main character in each episode by my count.The official allows him to attend a court session which reveals the Swiss bank accounts used by the gang. Ansel Elgort and Oakes Fegley share the main role of Theo, [41] and Aneurin Barnard and Finn Wolfhard share the role of Boris. Forsyth is currently developing sitcoms with the BBC and a show with ABC/DreamWorks for American TV. The heist led to a wave of international money laundering, provided dirty money that helped fuel the London Docklands property boom, caused seismic changes in both British crime and policing, and has been linked to a series of deaths that continued until 2015.

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In fact, the real Boyce had a distinguished career of standing up to police corruption in and around south London, including aiding Stephen Lawrence’s family in their long fight for justice. He has written two novels, Let Them Come Through and San Carlos while Other People’s Money, the true story of the Scottish credit card fraudster Elliot Castro was released in seven countries and is being developed as a feature film. The novel is part coming-of-age story, part mystery, part rumination on the value of a human life versus the value of art.This seems to be creative licence, though John Palmer later bought diamonds in neighbouring Liberia. Theo's life is disrupted when his deadbeat father arrives with his new girlfriend and whisks him away to Las Vegas. Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Another Dutch newspaper, Het Parool, sums it up as a "beautiful, exciting novel, filled with fascinating characters. The Gold gives a gripping breakdown of how the operation works: the Brink’s-Mat bars are smelted to remove their markings, often smelted with scrap or coins to hide the purity; the bars are then certified by an assay and sold to dealers; payments are deposited then withdrawn in huge cash sums, while paperwork for other (legitimately bought) gold covers their tracks.