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Investment scams conducted through social media in which victims were told to buy gold to put toward investments led to about ?2 billion in losses.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 14, 2026
Gold bars increasingly used in scams in Japan
Gold bar scam losses amounted to ?8.13 billion in Japan in the first half of 2026, already topping the ?6.02 billion lost in all of last year.
Deforestation from illegal mining in the Tambopata National Reserve
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 1, 2026
Peru is losing a battle against illegal gold mining in its rainforests
Even when operations to disrupt illegal gold mines go according to plan, it’s only a matter of days before miners return, said a federal prosecutor involved in the operations.
Tokyo police arrested six people for allegedly smuggling 49 kilograms of gold bars worth about ?1,075 million from China by hiding the bars inside life-size dolls.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 23, 2026
Six held for alleged gold-smuggling attempt from China
With an estimated worth of over 1 million yen the gold was concealed in life-size dolls.
A miner descends into a hole dug in search of gold in Venezuela in 2010. Venezuela, which has the world's largest proven oil reserves, is also rich in diamonds, bauxite, coltan and rare earths.
WORLD
Jun 5, 2026
‘Blood gold’: how gangs took control of Venezuela’s mines
Nearly all Venezuelan mining activity is controlled by gangs or by guerrillas from neighboring Colombia.
People wait to enter a gold shop in Hanoi on Tuesday
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 30, 2026
Heavy metal: Soaring gold price a crushing weight in Vietnam
The extraordinary run-up in gold prices has brought an unexpected windfall to many Vietnamese, but at a cost that weighs heavily for many.
One-ounce gold bullion bars lie ready for stamping during production at ABC Refinery in Sydney, Australia, on Oct. 13, 2025.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 13, 2026
Trump’s Greenland threat triggers search for shelter beyond gold and defense
Investors fear a geopolitical rift that could end NATO, shatter the global order and damage the dollar.
U.K. gold bullion bars and coins are displayed at Baird & Co. in Hatton Garden in London.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 21, 2025
Two men suspected of smuggling 1 ton of gold into Japan from South Korea
Investigators believe the pair traveled 216 times between South Korea and Japan from 2023 to 2024, smuggling roughly 1 ton of gold worth about ?10.8 billion.
A Sudanese woman walks past graves of people killed during clashes in Omdurman, Sudan on March 20.
WORLD
Nov 21, 2025
Scramble for Sudan’s resources fuels brutal civil war
The conflict between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has escalated in recent weeks with the RSF’s capture of the major city of El-Fasher in Darfur.
For decades, investors have turned to the yen during market shocks, but that instinct is now under strain.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 9, 2025
Yen’s haven status undercut by gold surge and BOJ rate-hike doubts
For decades, investors have turned to the yen during market shocks, from financial crises to geopolitical blowups.
UK gold bullion bars are stacked at Baird & Co in Hatton Garden in London on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 9, 2025
Gold’s spectacular three-year rally is breaking all the records
Bullion has shaken off its reputation as a barbarous relic and muscled its way back toward the center of the global monetary system.
Bullion reached a record high of $3,508.50 after notching up a sixth day of gains on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 2, 2025
Dollar inches up as gold hovers near record high
The recovery follows five days of selling, ahead of the return of U.S. traders from the Labor Day holiday.
Muddied prospectors pan for gold in Manica province, Mozambique, near the Zimbabwe border, in 2010.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability
Aug 20, 2025
Mozambique’s illegal miners reap risky rewards but land suffers
Rivers around mining sites are polluted, and mercury has seeped into the soil, creating a nightmare for farmers.
Villagers pan for gold in Bombana district of Indonesia's Southeast Sulawesi province in 2009.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability
Aug 19, 2025
Indonesia grapples with small-scale illegal gold mining
Local authorities face the challenge of encouraging villagers to keep to less-destructive ways of making money, such as sustainable agriculture.
Peruvian police seized four tons of illegal mercury from Mexico bound for Bolivia, dealing a severe blow to criminal organizations linked to illegal gold mining, customs authorities reported on Thursday.
WORLD
Jul 28, 2025
Smuggled mercury shows extent of illegal Amazon gold mining
Record gold prices have encouraged a flourishing illegal mining trade that damages local nature and biodiversity and is raising significant health concerns.
A gold miner holds up a piece of gold along the Madre de Dios River near Puerto Maldonado, Peru.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 6, 2025
Mining murders show Peru’s struggles with illegal gold rush
Skyrocketing gold prices are creating a further incentive for illegal mining activities in the country.
Anxieties about inflation, debt and the U.S. dollar’s stability — combined with high gold prices — are fueling renewed skepticism, raising the possibility of a Fort Knox audit to confirm if America's gold is still there.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 31, 2025
What’s fueling America’s gold bar conspiracy
The U.S. is right where it needs to be for Trump and Musk to tap into a decades-old fear about the country’s precious bullion stored in Fort Knox.
MUFG Bank President Junichi Hanzawa bows in apology in Tokyo on Jan. 17 following alleged massive thefts of customer assets by a former employee.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 5, 2025
Ex-MUFG bank worker paid interest to pawnshops to keep gold available to her
The bank worker is suspected of depositing in several pawnshops gold ingots worth several hundred million yen that she had stolen.
Former MUFG Bank employee Yukari Imamura, a suspect in the theft of gold ingots worth ?260 million, leaves the Nerima Police Station in Tokyo on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 15, 2025
Ex-MUFG Bank employee arrested over theft of 20 kg gold deposits
At least 60 clients have been victims of the safe?deposit box thefts, with the total damage expected to exceed ?1 billion.
Gold samples confiscated by Federal Police in Amazonas state, Brazil, on June 19
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 16, 2024
New technology aids Brazil’s crackdown on illicit Amazon gold trade
A police program is creating a database of samples from across Brazil that are examined to determine the unique composition of elements.
Tokyo Metropolitan Police have seized fake gold grains and notepads passed off as cash that were used to swindle a company executive in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward in October 2023.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 15, 2024
British national arrested for over ?13 million cash swap swindle
Joe Kpoto, 40, allegedly made off with the cash in a fake gold transaction by passing off a notepad as a stack of banknotes.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
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Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
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Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
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Ryan Roddy (second from left back) is pictured with the Ireland sumo team at this month's World Sumo Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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