I read the article, sounds like fake gold, and counterfeit gold. Mint is selling this to customers. Might be and inside job. Like Leston Lawrence here below.
Amusingly, if the swap turns out to be an inside job, it wouldn't be the first time. As we reported at the time, last September [10], 35-year-old Leston Lawrence was found guilty of smuggling C$180,000 worth of gold pucks, each the size of a small muffin, in his rectum over several months. Lawrence worked at the mint from July 2008 until March 2015. The punchline: his job included purifying gold...