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Aug. 08, 1967 - Largest Gold smuggling case unrevealed. After the exchange of information of smuggling case from canadian police through the International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO) last May. Tokyo police arrested o three foreign businessmen on charge of smuggling of gold valued at about 30 million. The foreigners placed under arrest were French trader David Ventura (48), Israeli Bernard Goorevich (67) and American Rudolph Chevez (44). They has concealed 260 gold bars in the bottom of 263 35-pound cans of motor grease, and put on board the British freighter Bracon Beacon of the Medmusley. Tokyo police's further questioning unrevealed that in the end of January they had tried to smuggle 300 more gold bars which were seized on the ship's arrival in Yokohama and had already smuggled another 300 gold bars. The total number of gold bars smuggled became 960, valued at about 670 million. Photo shows Tokyo police opened one of the double bottomed grease cans and picked out the gold bars hidden in the bottom
