Thanks for the information. Susso >From: saul khan <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Mobutu's Gold in Gambia! Help!! 2/2 >Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 21:42:12 GMT > >Here's the 2nd one! > >--------- Forwarded message ---------- >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 ( > >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------