Episode 39 - The Perth Mint Swindle: How $3.7 million in gold simply vanished.

In June 1982, 49 gold bars were withdrawn from the Perth Mint using three cheques. The bars were taken to Jandakot Airport, loaded onto a plane, and never seen again. However, staff at the Mint had realised the cheques were fraudulent, meaning the gold had been swindled. The Mickelberg brothers, Ray, Peter and Brian, were convicted in 1984, but these convictions were overturned 20 years later. The unsolved mystery of the missing gold has all the makings of a Hollywood film: allegations of police corruption bombshells about fabricated evidence, a plane crash, and a car bomb. But this is the real-life tale of the Mint Swindle.