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more from MIDAS report
posted on
Jul 29, 2009 06:01PM
Very surprised no one mentioned the Project Mayhem report which was mentioned by Zerohedge today.
Will be interesting to watch these fraudulent ETFs start trading at a discount to NAV. No audits,no known location of their "imaginary holdings' and now these anomalies, the real eye opener is when the weights of the bars are compared the inventory contracts by 82% for SLV.
The report is 12 pages in PDF fomat and a must read, Sincerely, Ed Wener
During our research into the inventory lists of the iShares SLV and London-based ETFS physical silver funds, we discovered multiple anomalies which cannot be easily dismissed. These included the presence of internal duplicates, rough internal duplicates, weight duplicates, statistical clustering, and cross-reference duplicates. Taken together, these anomalies are cause for concern, and we suggest that more capable teams conduct further research into these issues, as they effect price discovery within the precious metals market, as these ETF shares are being used for settlement and possibly pricesuppression on the COMEX.
If these problems are caused by accounting errors, they are disturbing and perhaps profoundly incompetent, and we suggest both these funds should have their senior management replaced.
In our opinions, the only way for all of these anomalies to occur together as noted in this paper, is via systemic fraud or gross accounting error bordering on jaw-dropping incompetence.