Operation Ernie
- Title
- Operation Ernie
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- May 1987
- Year of production
- 1987
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- Duration
- 00:04:19
- Description
- Interview with Richard Lawrence, Customs and Excise, about Operation Ernie and effect on future fraud. Nine highly specialised Customs and Excise fraud investigators took six years to crack the multi-million pound VAT gold fraud for which three men were gaoled at the Old Bailey (17/06/87). The three men gaoled were Alexander Grunfeld, Thomas Lee, and George White. Male interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- Richard Lawrence
- Keywords
- Fraud; Gold; Value Added Tax; Operation Ernie; Alexander Grunfeld; Thomas Lee; George White
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