Hijack, one of the oldest and most common of professions in the islands. I have had to listen to the bla bla bla of so many arm chair treasure hunters who say, just sell a few grams and fund your projects. Anyone who has actually tried to sell knows it is near impossible. Any buyer like a pawn shop or jewelry shop will A) size up the seller and figure if he is a local and how poor and defenseless he his. B) give a stall and two step while he is making a deal but giving signals or info to his thugs C) will screw the seller because he is desperate D) make a deal and then set the seller up for a take out or track him to his home base for a raid or hijack. ALSO the composition of treasure gold from bars is considerably different than from mined gold. That is the first thing a buyer looks for. IF it is not mined gold, then they go after you. Bla Bla Bla, don't respond to this by saying it won't happen or Zobex is full of crap or people aren't that bad or such. Go try it your self. Two some years ago one of my men cut the end off a 6.2 to sell for expenses and wound up having to cut the throats of a coupe of guys to get out of town. The whole thing was not worth the time for quick operation money. (( OK psychics, put on your hats and see if that statement is true or not ))
TT is not a real buyer for quantity. He has a couple of sweethearts that come in and buy through him. Tom got his start in the islands way back at the time of the Marcos coup. Back when I was in the fracas at the same time. I remember way back before he started working in the islands, he was a buyer of yellow to set up making coins. But that was back about 1985.
There is a group of white guys setting up a fly out of the islands on a regular basis with a private jet in 2012 Taking it to a German owned refinery in HK and banking out of HSBC. Their take is about 17% but the money gets deposited in HSBC. Won't fly out less than 75kg at a time. Not worth their time. They are retired (yea right) CIA who were based in the islands back from the late 1970's on forward and are going to retire there and base out of Mindanao. Naturally their permits are issued by the honest Nonoy Government, cough, choke.
IF you want to call them, it's 001 202 600 7247 see who answers. You won't find them listed in the Yellow Pages business telephone directory.
It's a dirty world out there when you actually get off your butt, away from the computer and do some work. Sad to say.
Zobex
