Here's the 2nd one!

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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 08:20:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Nicolas A Stettler <[log in to unmask]>
To: Saul Saidykhan <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: (fwd) Gambia denies knowledge of Mobutu gold
Philadelpia,
November 14th 1997

Hi Saul,How are you doing?
Seems like The Gambia is facing the same kind of problems as Switzerland!
To have too much gold is probably a problem easier to solve than any
other Gambian problems!
It seems to become clearer where Yaya's miraculous money came from?
Talk to you soon.Nicolas>>

>    BANJUL, Nov 14 (AFP) - The Gambian government denied Thursday
>any knowledge of hordes of gold reportedly stashed on the territory
>of the tiny west African state by former Zairean dictator Mobutu> Sese
>Seko.
>    Earlier this week a German television programme claimed to have
>found at least six tonnes of gold worth 90 million dollars hidden in
>Gambia for Mobutu, who was ousted from power in May and died in
>Morocco in September.
>    Responding to the programme, a Banjul government statement said
>that "the government of the Gambia and in particular the central
>bank wish to make it abondantly clear that as far as it is
>concerned, that there is absolutely no evidence that such gold has
>been deposited in the country's banking system or anywhere else in
>the Gambia.">    It added: "The government of the Gambia and the central
>bank
>would be most obliged if anyone can render any information which
>could lead to any trace of any gold deposit allegedly belonging to
>deceased president Mobutu."
>    The Democratic Republic of Congo, as Zaire was renamed by
>Mobutu's successor Laurent-Desire Kabila, said Thursday it would ask
>Gambia about the gold.
>    Justice Minister Celestin Luanghy told AFP that Kinshasa would
>begin "legal proceedings with Gambia ... to find the people who
>transferred the gold to Gambia and the places were the gold is> hidden."
>    "As soon as the (gold) has been discovered we are going to begin
>a legal process to have it restituted to Congo," Luanghy said.
>    The German ZDF network's investigative programme Kennweichen D
>said Wednesday that up to 100 kilos (220 pounds) had been shipped to
>Europe monthly to be sold on the international market with the aid
>of German and Swiss brokers.
>    The programme showed one of four safes containing gold bars
>reportedly found in Banjul, and containers of powdered gold hidden
>under floor tiles some 100 kilometres (65 miles) from the capital.
>    Kennweichen D said that Mobutu's son Kongolo, one-time head of
>the presidential guard force, was one of the organisers of the
>secret movement of gold from Zaire to Gambia since 1994.
>    Kongolo Mobutu currently lives in Morocco, where his
>sister-in-law denied any knowledge of the gold Tuesday. "Where's
>Gambia?" she asked before concluding, "I have no more to say on the>
>subject."
>    Mobutu's fortune, accumulated by the systematic looting of his
>country's wealth during his rule of more than 30 years, has been
>estimated at several billion dollars, and the new government in the
>Democratic Republic of Congo has been trying to recover the missing>
>riches.

>>Hallo Ebrima and G-Lers,
>>
>>Greetings to you and your sources.
>>Ebrima, Last night a friend of mine, Bubacarr Sankanu (

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