DRC cashes in as gold smuggling plot smashed

Congo authorities seized 435 kilos (957 pounds) of gold and $6.5 million in cash in smashing a plot to smuggle the haul abroad from the country’s anarchic east, officials said on Saturday.

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s state prosecutor said five people including an American and two French citizens, as well as an impounded, U.S.-registered Gulfstream jet, had been released after a $3 million fine was paid.