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Preface
Would you believe it if two people defrauded $3 billion in full view?
This is a real case of fraud that happened in Canada in the 90s of the last century.
There are a total of two fraud gangs, and they designed and laid out a gold mine fraud case, cashing out 3 billion US dollars.
The two created bizarre deaths to evade trial, and the crooks are still at large so far.
The scammer was later called the most successful fraudster of all time, and the initiator was Guzman, a geologist from the Philippines, who devised the scam and how did he defraud him of a huge amount of money?
Next, we reveal the front and back scenes of this scam in the film "Gold Mine", which is adapted from the incident.
Kenny and Mike's mining road
Kenny, the protagonist of the film, is the owner of a gold mining company that is on the verge of bankruptcy due to the economic crisis.
He wanted to find an investor to revitalize the company, but the wall fell down and everyone pushed him, and the investor rejected him without even thinking about it.
Driven mad by his desire to survive, Kenny drops all his valuables and travels to Indonesia to meet an old friend, Mike.
This Mike is the prototype of the geologist Guzman.
Kenny is very stubborn and believes that there is a gold mine here, and Mike, who is a good friend, is also convinced, so the two hit it off.
Decided to come deep into the jungle of Indonesia, hired local indigenous people to start sampling, but the test results got worse and worse every time.
After working for a long time, the workers gradually lost sight of hope and left here in groups.
And Kenny is also suffering from malaria at this critical moment, suffering from torture, and his life hangs by a thread.
Mike puts on his hat, is he going to go too?
He came to the tribe and persuaded the aborigines to go back and continue mining, and the workers did not say a word, let Mike into the house, and explained their difficulties.
Children here get sick all the time due to water quality issues.
Workers have no basic material and health security, let alone work.
Mike was so helpless that he handed over his drinking water and felt deep sympathy for everyone here.
Back at camp, Mike tells Kenny that he has decided to give up exploring.
Kenny dragged his frail body to his feet, believing that Mike would have a good way to bring them back to life.
Mike had no choice but to answer truthfully about the current situation of the workers without water, and suggested that if water purification could be installed, the workers might return to work.
Kenny smiled, and he cautiously pulled out two cards.
It's Kenny's last asset, and their last hope here.
Mike then bought a water purification unit and installed it door-to-door.
The Aboriginal workers were given clean water, and eventually the workers came back one by one.
In this kind of impoverished place, sometimes money is not everything, and it can solve the pain point of survival security, and the right medicine can solve the difficulties.
The workers who came back to the mine had basic material security and worked harder.
While Kenny was suffering from malaria, mining samples were released one after another, and test reports were tested one after another.
Finally Mike brought Kenny good news, as the area they mined contained 226 grams of gold per tonne.
What is this concept? The amount of gold in the stones in this area is enough to make them billionaires.
The two old men were happy like children, hugging each other tightly.
Kenny immediately flies home, and he mysteriously takes Jenny to a clearing, hoping that one day he will buy it.
Build a big house, have a few small children, and live a carefree, free life.
Back at the company, Kenny asked the investor who had rejected him to pour him a cup of his favorite flavored coffee, and he was severely humiliated by him, saving the face he had lost.
Kenny also managed to get an investment of $10 million.
Mike kept sampling and testing in Indonesia, good news came out frequently, and the gold content of the ore was getting higher and higher, which was simply a nest of gold, which made the two happy.
Final sampling results showed that the gold vein they contracted in Indonesia contained as much as 283 tonnes of gold.
The ups and downs of Kenny and Mike
At this time, the domestic mining group saw their success and threw an olive branch to Kenny.
They want to acquire their gold mine rights in Indonesia.
Kenny and Mike Mike discussed it, but Mike was adamantly opposed to the mining group's involvement.
And said to Kenny: "This is the mine we discovered, and it is our hard work that we have paid here, and we have paid everything in the wind and rain, and we can't let them succeed." ”
Kenny also felt deeply and told the mining group that it was okay to invest and wanted to teach me how to do things, so I didn't need to talk about it.
If you can't talk, there are still a lot of companies waiting outside!
Faced with such a large gold mine, the mining group could not resist the temptation, and immediately sent investors to the gold mine in Indonesia, where Kenny and Mike are located, to conduct on-the-spot investigations.
Mike showed them the sampling process and got the investors sent in to get involved and experience the gold rush.
Unexpectedly, an investor really sifted out a small piece of gold in some crushed ore.
At this time, the mining group and the outside company finally believe that their gold mines have a high gold content.
The first day of Kenny's domestic restructuring and listing.
The stock price soared to $70 a share.
At the celebration, Kenny basks in the joy of victory, ignoring his wife Jenny's feelings.
Jenny can't stand Kenny's actions, and when she is about to leave the celebration, she overhears the conversation of the CEOs of the mining group who came to participate in the celebration.
He says Kenny is like a raccoon with a sapphire.
You can't get too close to him, you can't let him run, you have to hold it firmly in their palms to rest assured.
The top brass of the mining group did look down on Kenny, and Kenny's wife, Jenny, didn't say a word and came up to toast a glass of wine.
Counting down the CEOs of the mining companies helps Kenny regain face and makes the CEOs make a fool of themselves.
Looking back, Jenny sees Kenny flirting at the celebration, and when she gets home, Jenny is completely blown up.
Jenny tells Kenny what she saw and heard at the festival and complains that these people will play with you to the bone, but Kenny says he knows what he knows.
Jenny is in love with him, and even though Kenny is ordinary, she is willing to be with Kenny.
However, Kenny is carried away by money, and he can't easily give up on his desperate efforts to build a career, and the two break up.
Kenny has since started a life of drunkenness, living in his own world and escaping from himself.
The mining group intends to mine Kenny's gold mine and pay $300 million to buy the mining rights, hoping that he will be completely out.
But Kenny refused, he really regarded this gold mine as his own business, his own treasure, and didn't want to sell it easily.
It didn't take long for the gold mine to be taken over by local armed forces.
In the end, it was discovered that the mining group used its connections to catch Mike, who was still in the mining area, off guard.
Mike calls Kenny and learns that Kenny has refused to be offered by the group for 300 million, and he yells at Kenny for being a fool.
The company's mining rights are revoked, and Kenny is left with nothing left under the power of power.
He dialed Jenny's phone and left a message to himself, while Jenny listened silently.
Kenny has a dream in his heart, and Jenny has him in his dream, and they have always been thinking about each other.
Mike arrives in the United States to restore Kenny's confidence, and they decide to fight back against the syndicate.
The two returned to Indonesia, got in touch with the son of the local power boss, and finally got back 15% of the mining rights, which made the mining group suffer a "dumb loss".
Kenny has become a prime worker again, and has even won the Mining Association's Gold Manuscript Award, making him famous.
He had the courage to come to Jenny with great interest, only to find that he was talking and laughing with other men.
Kenny leaves the gift he had prepared for her on her doorstep and angrily turns around and leaves.
The final winner
After some time, he once again became the most enviable entrepreneur in the United States.
What he doesn't know, however, is that he's just a pawn, and he's in the middle of a huge and well-planned scam.
Kenny is woken up by a phone call, he drives to the company, all the investors are waiting for him, and some of the grumpy people even knock him to the ground.
Kenny is eventually escorted back to the company under the protection of the crowd.
It turned out that there was an accident in the gold mine, and when the gold mine was being mined, the results of a laboratory showed that there was no trace of gold in Kenny's gold mine.
A panicked Kenny only then realizes that Mike has played everyone up.
As things fermented, Mike's fraud was revealed.
It turned out that in Mike's sample, the edge of the gold form was smooth, while the normal gold sample in natural ore should be a rough form with angular edges.
This shows that Mike made a fake and sprinkled gold dust in the samples sent for testing, which is the negligence of the original inspection agency.
The investment group never really verified the truth, but a small piece of gold mined in the mining area gained the trust of investors.
After that, all the people involved with it chose to trust the inspection report instead of going to the site to take samples.
Soon after, Kenny's stock was forcibly suspended.
Mike, on the other hand, became the biggest winner, selling $164 million in stock early.
The multibillion-dollar gold mine is gone, and all the assets of the investors are buried in it.
Kenny is thrust into the limelight, whether he is in cahoots with Mike, or is kept in the dark and everyone doesn't know what happened.
Kenny returns to the hotel alone, and the Bureau of Investigation has been waiting for a long time.
Someone from the Bureau of Investigation told Kenny that when Mike returned to Indonesia, he was already under the control of the military, and after being taken to a helicopter, Mike jumped in the air.
Indonesian police later found Mike's body, but his face and hands had been eaten by a jungle boar.
The Bureau of Investigation asks Kenny to confirm his identity, but Kenny can't recognize the unrecognizable photograph if it's Mike.
And the Bureau of Investigation also asks for information about Mike's fraud one by one to determine whether Kenny is involved?
After a series of questioning, Kenny is driven insane and yells at the Bureau of Investigation.
None of the people in the satirical incident questioned the process of examining the ore, and pointed out that these people had only one purpose, that is, to make money, and they themselves were kept in the dark.
The investigator begins to pity the man in the face of Kenny's helpless and sincere answer.
Since Mike was dead, there was no evidence, there was no proof of death, and the investigator had no way to continue the investigation, so he stopped recording and went home.
Kenny collects his emotions and returns home with a rose.
In fact, Jenny did not leave Kenny, she has been waiting for him at home.
Kenny hasn't lost everything, and he still has the best consolation for him, Jenny, who he loves the most.
Jenny pulls out a pile of mail he's received when he's not at home these days, and Kenny finds a special envelope with a piece of toilet paper inside, a contract signed by the two when they decided to take samples in Indonesia.
It says that the proceeds of future mining will be split fifty-fifty. Wrapped underneath was a check for $82 million.
This film restores the truth of the real case.
epilogue
For such a big fraud case, everyone in every link is actually responsible.
But in the 90s of the last century, limited by the information blockage at that time, Mike used trust to defraud everyone. But Kenny became the ultimate beneficiary.
The evil of the world, in the end, is driven by the great profit that blinds them.