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Go to all that work and then get found out by using shitty spray paint.
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Now that’s good. I wonder how they got caught.
…technicians removed the motor casing and found a rotor “wrapped in a cord wheel which was tied to tape.”
“It was not similar to a normal motor,” he added.
After examining the rotor, authorities found traces of glue at both ends of the machinery part. Using a hammer, they then tapped the part and “noticed unevenness,” indicating the metal was far more malleable than it should have been. Scraping away at an outer layer of silver paint showed flecks of gold.
You’d think the first clue would be that gold is 2.5x heavier by volume than steel and is 7x heavier than aluminum.
I did the math lower down:
Probably don’t notice when you’re using a forklift.
My math says that’s 133 kg of gold. Not all that much. If you replaced the metal volume, the additional weight is approx 81 kg.
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A kg of gold is worth ~75,500.
You’re saying a kg is worth $60 million.
It would’ve been less suspicious to just have them laying around.
They found $5 million in gold, how weird.
I wonder if 2.5 million in gold with be enough for prosecution.
They even put the parts back in the original air compressor. Hilarious.
They did a variant of Goldfinger’s smuggling technique?
They should have tried not getting caught