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Reuters uses customs data which, it is said, indicates that the United Arab Emirates has imported much more gold from some African countries than countries reported exporting, ie 67 tonnes in 2016.
Industrial mining companies in Africa told Reuters that they were not sending their gold to the UAE, indicating that its gold imports from Africa come from informal sources.
Informal sources are now "large-scale and dangerous" operations led by foreign-controlled criminal syndicates, Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo said at a conference on mining. in February.
The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the federal customs authorities did not respond to Reuters.
The news agency points out that some of the discrepancies may be legitimately explained – because shipping costs and taxes are reported differently, a discrepancy between the departure and the arrival of D & D A cargo or simply mistakes. And some could be recycled to gold.
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