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Old Jul 26, 2019, 8:07 am
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719 KILO Gold Bullion Theft at GRU Yesterday

https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-paulo/no...uarulhos.ghtml

Yesterday, robbers posing as Federal Police, stole 719 KILOS worth of gold bars from the cargo area at GRU in Sao Paulo. In the CCTV video the entire thing took less than a minute.

Apologies for the Portuguese language, you'll have to use Google if you require a translation.

The video in the link is viewable in North America however.

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Old Jul 29, 2019, 6:32 am
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This isn't the first time this kind of thing has happened at GRU I think?
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Old Aug 1, 2019, 4:02 pm
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Usually people go "TO" Brasil with their stolen gold........Ronnie Briggs for example.

You are probably right about GRU too. It has waaaay more cargo than GIG, plus, you've got also got VCP nearby as well.
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