Editing Brink's-Mat robbery (section)

==Recovery==
===Gold===
Attempts by McAvoy to strike a deal to give back his share of the money in exchange for a reduced sentence failed, as by then the money had vanished.<ref name="grauniad" /><ref name="bbc2">{{Cite news |last=Summers |first=Chris |date=26 January 2004 |title=In search of thieves' gold |work=[[BBC News]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3394087.stm |url-status=live |access-date=22 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610071807/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3394087.stm |archive-date=10 June 2011}}</ref> Despite a record reward of £2 million offered for locating the gold,<ref name=flaw/> much of the three tonnes of stolen gold has never been recovered. £1 million of gold was found stored at the Bank of England.<ref name=times92/> In 1996, about half of the gold, the portion which had been smelted and recast, was thought to have found its way back into the legitimate gold market, including the reserves of the true owners, Johnson Matthey.<ref name="independent1353688">{{Cite news |last=Coates |first=Sam |date=23 November 1996 |title=Whatever happened to Brinks-Mat? |work=[[The Independent]] |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/whatever-happened-to-brinksmat-1353688.html |url-status=live |access-date=12 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925024830/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/whatever-happened-to-brinksmat-1353688.html |archive-date=25 September 2015}}</ref> According to the [[BBC]], some have claimed that anyone wearing gold jewellery bought in the UK after 1983 is probably wearing Brink's-Mat.<ref name="bbc1" /> The rest of the gold was believed to have been buried.<ref name="Whatever happened to Brinks-Mat?"/>

Lloyd's of London made a record insurance pay out of £26 million.<ref name=noyeguilty/>

===Cash and other assets===
By 1995, 57 people had assets frozen, including homes and a Kansas oil well and the insurers had recovered £16 million, including £3 million from Noye.<ref name="Whatever happened to Brinks-Mat?"/> In January 1995, the [[High Court of Justice|High Court]] ordered McAvoy to make a payment of £27,488,299, making him responsible for the entire sum stolen.<ref name="pounds 27m MAN FREED; Life">{{Cite news |last=Luckett |first=Tim |date=30 July 2000 |title=£27m Man Freed; Life's good again for Brink's Mat mastermind |publisher=[[Sunday Mirror]] |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/pounds+27m+MAN+FREED%3b+Life%27s+good+again+for+Brink%27s+Mat+mastermind.-a063753297 |url-status=live |access-date=22 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127152209/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/pounds+27m+MAN+FREED%3b+Life%27s+good+again+for+Brink%27s+Mat+mastermind.-a063753297 |archive-date=27 November 2016 |via=thefreelibrary.com}}</ref> Despite being acquitted of robbery, in 1995 White was also ordered by the High Court to repay the stolen £26 million plus £2.2 million in compensation and his wife ordered to repay £1.1 million. The judge said that he was satisfied that White was involved in planning the robbery.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=2 August 1995|page=2|last=Tendler|first=Stewart|title=Judgment overtakes Brink's-Mat accused 11 years later}}</ref> By 2004, £25 million had been recovered in total.<ref name="bbc2"/>

===Counterfeit stolen gold bars===
On 21 December 1983, less than four weeks after the robbery, police in [[Austria]] arrested five men, four Italians and an Austrian, at a [[Vienna]] hotel.<ref name="19831222nytimes">{{Cite news |date=22 December 1983 |title=Austrians Seize False Gold Tied to London Bullion Theft |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/22/world/austrians-seize-false-gold-tied-to-london-bullion-theft.html |url-status=live |access-date=6 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327020539/http://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/22/world/austrians-seize-false-gold-tied-to-london-bullion-theft.html |archive-date=27 March 2012}}</ref> Police also recovered ten bullion bars bearing the refiner's mark and serial numbers of bars stolen in the Brink's-Mat robbery.<ref name="19831222nytimes"/>

According to the police spokesman, the bars were gold-coated [[tungsten]] [[counterfeit]]s, and therefore could not be Johnson Matthey's stolen gold bars. He said that the arrested men planned to fraudulently claim they were from the Heathrow robbery. No explanation was given as to how the counterfeiters obtained the unpublished bar serial numbers, nor the likely benefit of counterfeiting stolen property in this way.<ref name="19831222nytimes"/>

===Panama Papers===
Gordon Parry laundered large amounts of cash from the robbery after the disposal of the gold according to the [[Panama Papers]], which show an offshore financial intermediary firm in [[Jersey]] named Centre Services requested [[Mossack Fonseca]] set up a Panamanian company 12 months after the Heathrow raid on behalf of an unnamed client. Under Parry's direction millions of pounds were put through the resulting Feberion and other front companies via banks in [[Switzerland]], [[Liechtenstein]], Jersey and the [[Isle of Man]]. A man identified as depositing £800,000 in cash to the [[Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank]] is thought to have been notorious armed robber David Moore.<ref>{{Cite web |title=How Mossack Fonseca helped hide millions from Britain's biggest gold bullion robbery |website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |date=4 April 2016|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/04/brinks-mat-how-mossack-fonseca-helped-hide-millions}}</ref>

Two nominee directors from [[Sark]] were appointed to Feberion and the company then issued two [[bearer shares]].<ref name="20160404guardian">{{Cite web |last=Simon Bowers |title=How Mossack Fonseca helped hide millions from Britain's biggest gold bullion robbery |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/04/brinks-mat-how-mossack-fonseca-helped-hide-millions |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405002912/http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/04/brinks-mat-how-mossack-fonseca-helped-hide-millions |archive-date=5 April 2016 |access-date=14 December 2016 |website=The Guardian|date=4 April 2016 }}</ref> Parry used the offshore firms and recycled the funds, said to have amounted to £10.7 million, through transactions involving land in [[London Docklands]], some buildings that used to form part of [[Cheltenham Ladies' College]], a farmhouse in Kent for McAvoy's girlfriend Kathleen Meacock and a £400,000 home for himself and his family, Crockham House, near [[Chartwell]], [[Kent]].<ref name=20160404guardian/> The Metropolitan Police raided the offices of Centre Services in late 1986 in cooperation with the Jersey authorities, seized papers and the two Feberion bearer shares.<ref name=20160404guardian/>

In 1987, [[Jürgen Mossack]], the law firm's principal, regained control of the company by [[stock dilution|dilution]].<ref name=20160404guardian/> Parry appointed a fresh set of Feberion directors, who were instructed to issue 98 new shares to Western Cross Inc, a front company controlled by Parry or his associates.<ref name=20160404guardian/> In 1995, Brink's-Mat solicitors finally took control of Feberion and its assets. Crockham House was sold, and reacquired by Parry's wife, Irene Beaumont.<ref name=20160404guardian/>