00808nam a2200133 4500100002000000245005200020260002100072300000800093520041800101650006100519856007400580942000700654999001300661 aVan Rensburg, D aHow Wrong the UN was on SA Gold ‘Smuggling’ bCity Pressc2016 a3p. aThis is a response to UNCTAD report which alleged that SA lost billions in gold smuggling. The article argues that simple statistical mistakes seemingly led one of the leading global experts on illicit financial flows to wrongly claim that billions of dollars’ worth of gold has been smuggled out of South Africa. The numbers “touted” by the report are due to classification anomalies and easily refuted,  aTrade Misinvoicing, Smuggling , Natural Resources, Gold  uiffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/How wrong the UN was on SA gold.pdf cNA c731d731