Raids reveal how illegal gold from Indigenous lands gets laundered in Brazil

Mongabay
Aug 29, 2022, 3:53 pm212 pts
Coordinated raids by police in Brazil have shed new light on the workings of the illegal mining industry in the Amazon. Federal police carried out three simultaneous raids against the mining company Gana Gold in July on suspicion that it operated a criminal scheme to “launder” gold mined from protected…

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