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Elemetal is a Dallas, Texas-based corporation with many subsidiaries which smelt, refine and trade gold.

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Walter Luhrman founded a precious metals refinery in Jackson, Ohio under the name Jackson Precious Metals in 1974. It would run into financial difficulties in the 1990s and he would sell it to Alan Stockmeister, a Jackson native who own owned many local area businesses, including the local newspaper. Stockmeister would rename the precious metals refinery, Ohio Precious Metals. Stockmeister said success would not be defined in terms of dollars and profits, but in terms of creating jobs for the Appalachia Ohio region.

In April 2012 Ohio Precious Metals LLC ("OPM") entered into an agreement with NTR Metals to acquire the assets and use of the name NTR Metals. In 2015, Bill LeRoy, the president of Ohio Precious Metals was named the company's CEO and the company changed its name to Elemetal.

In March 2017, Juan P. Granda a former employee of NTR Metals, Miami was charged with buying gold from illegal mines in Peru. [1] In January 2018; Samer H. Barrage, Renato J. Rodriguez, and Juan P. Granda; three former employees of the now-defunct Florida-based NTR Metals Miami, were jailed for six years after they pleaded guilty to money-laundering. Elemetal was not charged in the case against the three rogue gold traders. [2]

In March 2018, Elemetal pleaded guilty in the Southern District of Florida to "failure to maintain an adequate anti-money laundering program", a violation of the Bank Secrecy Act. [3] Elemetal was fined $15 million. [4]

In April 2019, Republic Metals Corporation "executed a non-prosecution agreement" with the USDA in the ongoing Operation Arch Stanton [5] investigation which had ensnared the three former employees of the now-defunct NTR Metals Miami. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Gold Company Manager Charged in Vast Peruvian Smuggling Plot". Bloomberg. 16 March 2017.
  2. ↑ "2 sentenced for laundering billions in South American gold". FOX News Network, LLC. The Miami Herald via the Associated Press. 19 January 2018.
  3. ↑ "U.S. Gold Refinery Pleads Guilty to Charge of Failure to Maintain Adequate Anti-Money Laundering Program". United States Department of Justice. 16 March 2018. The case is U.S. v. Elemetal LLC, Case No. 18-20173-CR-MORENO.
  4. ↑ "Firm behind gold-fueled, Miami-based money-laundering racket fined $15 million". The Miami Herald. 16 March 2018.
  5. ↑ "Operation Arch Stanton". Maderal Byrne & Furst. 1 January 2023.
  6. ↑ "United States and Cooperating Gold Refinery Enter Agreement After Money Laundering Investigation". CoinWeek.com. 23 April 2019.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 "The Dallas Links to an Alleged Gold-Smuggling Scheme". D Magazine Partners, Inc. October 2018.
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