The 11 men arrested by the Police on Saturday morning as part of the operation called Golden Mole, coordinated by the Dda of Cagliari, were targeting the gold produced in the San Gavino plant by Portovesme srl, controlled by Glencore.
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30 kilos of gold per week
The target, which also included a worker employed in the Medio Campidano plant, was the approximately 30 kilograms of gold produced weekly in the foundry operated by Glencore’s subsidiary in San Gavino, valued at around 6 million euros and shipped by armored car to Tuscany. Gold is one of the productions that, although in limited quantities compared to other volumes, is carried out by the Glencore-controlled company’s plants. More than a ton of gold and 300 tons of silver are then destined for the precious metals market. Niche productions that, for the metallurgical factory, have significant weight.
Stopped before taking action
However, the 11 people were stopped by the police before they could put their plan into practice, which, in the recent period, would have also involved directly assaulting the foundry’s vault (hence the name of the operation ‘Golden Mole’).
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The role of the insider
According to the accusation, «the contribution of the insider – the investigators emphasize -, a specialized worker employed within the target to be robbed, would have been decisive in the preparatory phase, who, “according to the investigative framework,” would have provided the organization with fundamentally important confidential information, through the preparation of photographic surveys not only of the armored vans present at the time of collection, but also of the entire production site and its access areas, documenting entrances, internal routes, security systems, and sensitive points of the structure».
A detailed action plan
An activity that would then have allowed them to elaborate an «extremely detailed» action plan and identify the most suitable methods to reach the vault and neutralize the obstacles placed in its defense, taking into account the use of weapons, explosives, and heavy vehicles.
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