A long-running inquiry into activities including bribery, gold-smuggling and illegal collusion is making life harder for those who are try to read the tea leaves of the Turkish economy. The sums of money are quite large; GNP-altering.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-25/turkey-sells-200-tons-of-secret-gold-to-iran.htmlSubstituting bogus food exports when the secretive gold "exports" stalled was....mmm.... less effective.
State Bank manager to Iranian master shuffle-man: "Let's talk about this wheat issue. [___] I think it’s a little difficult for a 5,000-ton thing to carry a 140,000-150,000 ton order.” Then he pointed out another problem: "The document you sent has the origin of the wheat as Dubai.”
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