The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam
By BBC & CBC
It was the biggest gold discovery in history…until it wasn’t. In 1995, Canadian mining company Bre-X announced to the world it had found a significant amount of gold deep in the jungles of Indonesia. Stock prices soared as investors worldwide fought to stake their claim. But when Bre-X’s chief geologist mysteriously fell from a helicopter over the jungle, the story of the billion dollar discovery began to unravel. Nearly three decades later, no one has ever been held accountable. Now, host Suzanne Wilton takes listeners from the jungles of Indonesia to small town Alberta, Canada, to investigate what really happened and find out more about the man behind the biggest goldmine fraud of all time. Produced for the BBC World Service and CBC by BBC Scotland Productions.
Please note, this series contains references to suicide and has some graphic content.
Latest episode
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Introducing The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam
It was the biggest gold mine fraud of all time. But what really happened? -
1. The fall
A body falls from a chopper into the jungle and smashes open a billion-dollar secret -
2. The believers
It’s gold fever. Investors hear of unimaginable riches deep in the Indonesian jungle -
3. The battle for Busang
Bre-X shares skyrocket in value, and the fight for control gets dirty -
4. Prospector of the year
Bre-X’s new partners visit the Indonesian gold exploration site. A shock awaits -
5. Waiting for Michael
The dream is collapsing and there’s going to be a showdown at the gold exploration site -
6. The end of the bonanza
With Bre-X stock halted on the financial markets, a terrible truth emerges -
7. Blame
The hunt to discover who is behind the gold scam begins -
8. The fall guy
Did geologist Michael de Guzman really jump to his death from a helicopter? -
9. The exit strategy
A new witness comes forward with important new evidence on the fate of Michael de Guzman
