The money from Brink’s-Mat travelled around the world and even showed up in the Panama Papers in 2016, a leak of documents revealing how the rich hide their wealth in tax havens. He helped set up offshore accounts so laundered money was recycled back to Britain and invested in property. In The Gold, the character Edwyn Cooper – played by Dominic Cooper – is loosely based on real-life Brink’s-Mat lawyer Michael Relton. The effort to dispose of the gold is believed to have introduced major-scale international money laundering. Some of the stolen gold must even have been sold back to its original owner, the company Johnson Matthey. Half of the loot is believed to have found its way back to the legitimate gold trade and it is claimed anyone buying gold after 1983 is likely to have got some of the Brink’s-Mat haul. The Gold: The Inside Story airs on Monday following Sunday’s final episode of the drama, which stars Jack Lowden as fence Kenneth Noye, Tom Cullen as John “Goldfinger” Palmer and Hugh Bonneville as DCS Boyce. But instead they discovered gold bullion worth £26million, making it the biggest heist of its kind in history.Īnd now in a BBC1 documentary, retired Det Chief Supt Brian Boyce, head of the investigation, speaks for the first time about the robbery and its legacy.
They expected to steal Spanish currency worth around £13,000. Six raiders broke into the Brink’s-Matt warehouse at Heathrow in 1983. Millions have been glued to The Gold, a TV dramatisation of the Brink’s-Mat robbery and its incredible aftermath.
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