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$1.2b gold smuggled in 2022 could have boosted Ghana’s reserve position – Finance Minister

Ghana’s Minister for Finance, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, has revealed that 60 tonnes of gold, worth an estimated $1.2 billion, were smuggled out of the country at the height of the economic crisis in 2022. He made this revelation in a social media post on July 8, highlighting the scale of illicit gol...