In the Akmola region of Kazakhstan, gold was stolen from a mine in the amount of 122 million tenge (more than 288 thousand dollars), the police have already begun an inspection, Interfax writes.
The intruders stole cathode gold worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from MMC Kazakhaltyn JSC. A special investigative-operational group has been created to investigate, pre-trial proceedings are carried out under the article “Theft”.
In September last year in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, a mine worker stole 8.5 million rubles worth of gold. For several months, he stole gold-bearing sand and gold nuggets from the premises of the enterprise and hid them in the forest.
Earlier, the American billionaire called gold a “dead” asset. Many qualities of gold have been adopted by cryptocurrencies, he said. Consumer demand for gold in the world in 2020 fell to the lowest in the last 11 years. At the same time, investment demand for the metal showed record values. It has increased by 40 percent.