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Margot Lang

Margot Lang is a Perth-based journalist, editor, and reviewer.

Margot Lang reviews 'The Mickelberg Stitch' by Avon Lovell

May 1985, no. 70 01 May 1985
The Great Mint Swindle was one of the most outrageous frauds in the history of Australian crime. On 22 June 1982, the closely guarded Perth Mint handed over, without a murmur, $650,000 worth of gold bars, which were never to be seen again. Not a shot was fired, not a person threatened. It was all done with three fake building society cheques, which the Mint accepted without question. The mastermin ... (read more)