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Egypt's Zambian gold scandal
Hossam over at 3arabawy (recently reborn as a Substack newsletter - do subscribe) has been providing some coverage of what he calls
Goldgate, the bizarre story about a number of Egyptian current or former military and intelligence officers who were recently arrested in Lusaka, Zambia, with a cargo of fake gold bars. The story was revealed by Zambian media and has been banned in Egypt, with authorities arresting (and subsequently releasing) a journalist at the factchecking website Matsda2sh, as Mada Masr reports. Here’s Hossam on Zambian TV giving an overview of the story:
More on this at NYT, Al Jazeera, and al-Monitor.