Posted on 05/25/2021 6:11:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The four gold bars stolen were part of a larger shipment from Australia, and Moody is accused of taking them after part of the cargo got separated from the rest when it arrived at LAX on April 22, 2020.
A Canadian bank had shipped 2,000 gold bars, each weighing a kilogram and valued at around $56,000, via Singapore Airlines. During a layover at LAX, the gold was removed from the plane and secured, but an inventory check that evening showed one box of 25 bars had gone missing, prosecutors said.
The following morning, Moody allegedly discovered the missing box near the Singapore Airlines cargo warehouse and subsequently took four of the bars.
Benson picked Moody up in a company van, and the two exchanged texts about Moody’s stash of gold because others were in the van
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Auric Goldfinger: “There have been several through the years who have tried to insinutate themselves into my affairs. This one will end up the same way.”
Well, who is going to notice that four gold bars out of 2000 are missing?
Or that two workers are walking funny?
The perp’s statement-
“Singapore Airlines should have been our ultimate score. The heist of a lifetime.”
Shiny , must have
The 2 cargo handlers should have watched Hogan’s Heroes, they might have gotten the plan right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLKLpf-U0kI
I’m pretty sure they counted them before the flight and when they arrived.
Yeah, what’s a few kilos of gold more or less? They still had plenty left.
BAHOG!
Pfffft! I wouldn’t even show UP if the ‘take’ was only $224K.
Come on, Man! *SMIRK*
Just say you were shop lifting in San Francisco and you will get off.
Lucky it came from Australia
If it was from China they’d be walking away with gold covered tungsten.
Hey, Sambo...
There has to be more people involved in this operation. Someone had to have tipped off the ground crew about the gold shipment on the plane. After all, I don’t think it would be shipped in a crate marked, “gold bars, fine, 25. This end up”.
Organized crime?
Lets see; At the current spot price that would be
~US$ 122,186,495.18.
With a cargo that valuable, I’d charter a plane and ride shotgun on it myself, every inch or the way.
“Do you think we’ll get caught?”
“Nah”
Some people just have no honesty left in them.
Go directly to jail.
“With a cargo that valuable, I’d charter a plane and ride shotgun on it myself, every inch or the way.”
Good point. That strikes me as too valuable of a cargo not to have some kind of armed escort or protection.
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