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All that glitters

12 April 2007 By Edward Hadas

A threepage email and a gullible journalist were enough to push the South African miner s share price up by 11%. There was supposed to be a $12.5bn bid from a highly secretive financier, Edward Pastorini. So secretive that he doesn t exist.

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