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🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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The hunt to discover who was behind the six billion dollar gold scam begins, and Suzanne brings new information to light on how it was perpetrated. But who was to blame and will anyone be held to account?
Please note, this episode contains difficult subject matter, including references to suicide and death.
The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam was first published in May 2024.
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0:00.0 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast, but this is about something else you might enjoy. |
0:05.4 | My name's Katie Lecky and I'm an assistant commissioner for on demand music on BBC Sounds. |
0:10.8 | The BBC has an incredible musical heritage and culture and as a music lover, I love being part of that. |
0:17.5 | With music on sounds, we offer collections and mixes for everything, from workouts to |
0:22.4 | helping you nod off, boogie in your kitchen, or even just a moment of calm. And they're all put |
0:28.3 | together by people who know their stuff. So if you want some expertly curated music in your life, |
0:35.0 | check out BBC Sounds. |
0:40.7 | From the BBC's Investigations podcast World of Secrets, |
0:43.6 | here's the seventh episode of our guest season, |
0:48.0 | the $6 billion gold scam from the BBC World Service and CBC. |
0:49.8 | Over to Suzanne Wilton. |
0:54.2 | First, a warning. |
1:02.1 | The following episode contains difficult subject matter, including references to suicide and death. |
1:11.8 | One of the strange things about the Break story is the amount of heartache that it caused to so many different people. |
1:16.3 | There were times where I thought there was some kind of Brex curse. |
1:24.0 | I don't believe in the boogeyman, and I don't believe in curses as a general matter, |
1:30.8 | but there's something about Breax that's hard to explain other than hellfire and damnation. |
1:35.2 | I also don't believe in the boogeyman or curses, but the number of Brex execs, lawyers, expert |
1:43.4 | witnesses, investigators, and even journalists who've worked on this story and had tragedy befall them during or shortly after is quite unbelievable. |
1:55.1 | I can think of four people I personally know who either lost their lives or experienced some kind of unrelated |
2:04.2 | tragedy following their involvement with Breaks. Like the investors, we lost everything. My husband |
2:14.6 | was sick for four years. We worked hard for our money. |
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