It is entirely possible this is some sort of scam, with a false statement of a Federal raid to explain the disappearance of the gold and silver, as well as the records. Bernard von NotHaus (Is that his real name?) may already be in Costa Rica or some other safe haven in a country without an extradition treaty by now. In any case, it stretches credulity that the company lacked a backup site for its data records, something you are taught in Information Technology 101.