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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Juan Blanco, post: 1566867, member: 41665&quot;]I want to bump this post. Certain points warrant clarification!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Some articles imply &quot;Ibrahim Fadl&quot; was the retail seller (&quot;reputable merchant&quot;) of the duff bar. Not so. Another article explains abit more but<i> not the whole story</i>:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Presumptions!&nbsp; How do we know Mr. Fadl is &#039;a reputable retail Gold dealer&#039; as FauxNews says?&nbsp; How big is his &quot;shop&quot; really, and what&#039;s going on here?&nbsp; And who is the &quot;well-known Russian dealer&quot; who cannot be named (and went back to Russia?) Sorry folks, the devil&#039;s in the details. </p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tungsten-filled-gold-bars-found-in-new-york-2012-9" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tungsten-filled-gold-bars-found-in-new-york-2012-9" rel="nofollow">http://www.businessinsider.com/tungsten-filled-gold-bars-found-in-new-york-2012-9</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ibrahim Fadl (Express Metal Refining Co.) is a <i>very small industrial refiner </i>on the 8th Floor of a jewelers&#039; trade bldg in Manhattan.&nbsp; He&#039;s <u>not</u> someone that you or I would ever buy coin or ingot from!&nbsp; Presume he got rooked by another low-level operator (maybe Russian mafia) in the trade, hustling discounted bars.&nbsp; Too bad, but still.</p><p><br /></p><p>Much like the wildly overblown brouhaha over &#039;fake Chinese Gold&#039; back in 2010, this one-time event only hit a lazy/unlucky scrap refiner. EOS.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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