Gold Smuggled In Rancid Butter
LONDON, May 1. Smugglers, over a period of six months, transferred £lOO,OOO worth of stolen gold from the Rand to India by the “rancid butter” trick, says the Daily Express Johannesbury correspondent. The smugglers opened tins of butter imported from India, impregnated the butter with gold dust, resealed the tins, and sent them back to Bombay labelled “unfit for human consumption.”
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Grey River Argus, 3 May 1947, Page 8
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