Re: Trader buys $36 million of copper and gets painted rocks instead
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about 6,000 tons of blister copper in more than 300 containers were switched with jagged paving stones, spray-painted to resemble the semi-refined metal
Amazing!
think about it.
13 people arrested... hmm.. 300 containers containing hundreds of thousands of tiles. all individually handsprayed... that takes a few months.. not a 2 day lay-over
13 people arrested... hmm.. 300 containers containing hundreds of thousands of tiles. all individually handsprayed... that takes a few months.. not a 2 day lay-over
I can understand spraying, they were doing that in some warehouse, slowly (if they started on time)... like preparation time!
But can you imagine this entire action? One truck can carry 20-30 tons (some special ones can carry more), so roughly 200-300 trucks, you probably need a few forklifts... they must be doing that for a while, looks to me like impossible to do this switch in just 2-3 days! Or maybe they had containers, so one container with fake copper comes, one container with real copper gets out!?
Those 13 people are probably low ranked workers, and painters!