Mr. Susso,
This is actually old news. A Swiss friend of mine sent me the email below
back in '97. This is 1 of 2. See if it helps at all.
Good day.
Saul.
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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 07:54:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Nicolas A Stettler <[log in to unmask]>
To: Saul Saidykhan <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: (fwd) German TV reports Mobutu gold cache in Gambia
Philadelphia, November 12 th 1997
Hi Saul,
I am busy like hell, but I just want to forward you this news. I'll try
to write longer sometime soon.Nicolas>>
> BONN, Nov 11 (AFP) - A German television programme on Tuesday
>reported finding part of a six-tonne gold cache belonging to the
>late Zairean president Mobutu Sese Seko, hidden in Gambia.
> The ZDF network's investigative programme Kennweichen D said in
>a statement it would broadcast secretly-filmed footage of the find,
>which included gold bars, on Wednesday.
> The programme said it had located part of an estimated 90
>million dollars in gold which Mobutu's son Kongolo, one-time head of
>the presidential guard force, had helped shift discreetly from Zaire
>to Gambia in the waning months of his father's regime.
> Kongolo Mobutu currently lives in Morocco, where his father died
>in exile in September.
> Speaking in Rabat, his sister-in-law said the family was
>completely unaware of the reported discovery -- or of where it
>reportedly took place.
> "Where's Gambia?" she asked before concluding "I have no more to
>say on the subject."
> The ZDF programme said that some 80-100 kilos (176-220 pounds)
>of the Mobutu gold turned up on the international market each> month.
> Mobutu's fortune 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 ( I think you know
>>him) call me from the Democratic Republic of the Congo where he is
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