由厄帕姆尤·特里维迪（Upmanyu Trivedi）报道，伦敦金银市场协会（LBMA）的认证项目充当了“厚重的烟幕”，掩盖了坦桑尼亚一座金矿发生的严重侵权行为，两名男子在该金矿丧生。伦敦一场可能威胁该协会生存的审判于开庭时，律师作出了上述指控。
By Upmanyu Trivedi The London Bullion Market Association’s certification program served as a “thick smokescreen” that enabled serious abuses at a Tanzanian gold mine where two men died, lawyers alleged at the start of a London trial that could threaten its existence.
LBMA因遭到两名男子的家属起诉而面临审判，这两名男子据称于2019年在北马拉金矿被警察枪杀。原告家属的律师辩称，该黄金机构的决定对该金矿暴力行为的使用产生了直接影响。
The LBMA is facing trial after it was sued by the families of two men who were allegedly shot dead by police at the North Mara gold mine in 2019. Lawyers for the two families argue that the gold body’s decisions had a direct effect on the use of violence at the mine.
原告家属的律师多米尼克·格里夫（Dominic Grieve）在为周三听证会准备的法庭文件中表示：“LBMA设计、宣扬并实施了一项负责任的采购和认证计划，该计划充当了厚重的烟幕。”“LBMA提供了合理的推诿空间，甚至是镀金的名誉，这意味着虐待行为可以不受惩罚地继续下去。”伦敦黄金机构的法律战暴露了对金条市场的威胁这场为期六周的审判将仔细审查相对较小的LBMA在监督伦敦每周1万亿美元黄金市场中所发挥的过大作用。该案的结果可能对行业如何监管其供应链产生深远影响。
“LBMA devised, trumpeted, and implemented a responsible sourcing and certification programme which served as a thick smokescreen,” Dominic Grieve, a lawyer for the families, said in court filings prepared for Wednesday’s hearing. “The LBMA provided plausible deniability, even gilded respectability, which meant that the abuses could continue unchecked.”London Gold Body’s Legal Fight Exposes Threat to Bullion Market The six-week trial will scrutinize the outsized role that the relatively small LBMA plays in overseeing the $1-trillion-a-week gold market in London. The outcome of the case could have far-reaching implications for how the industry polices its supply chain.
代理此案的律师事务所Leigh Day表示，已有另外30人加入诉讼，等待本案审判结果。
Leigh Day, the law firm running the claim said that 30 more people have joined the lawsuit pending the outcome of this trial.
LBMA否认了所有指控，其律师在法庭文件中表示，该协会不应对警察涉嫌非法行为造成的死亡承担责任。他们补充说，追究该机构对死亡事件的责任，可能会对该协会及其旨在确保供应链免受侵犯人权和冲突影响的“负责任黄金指导方针”计划构成生存威胁。
The LBMA denies all the claims and can’t be held responsible for the deaths caused by the alleged unlawful actions of the police, its lawyers said in court filings. Holding the body accountable for the deaths could pose an existential threat to the association and its Responsible Gold Guidance scheme, which aims to ensure that supply chains are free of human rights abuses and conflict, they added.
如果法院裁定LBMA对这两名男子负有注意义务，“LBMA将无法承受由此产生的法律和财务风险。”
If the court rules that the LBMA owed a duty of care to the two men, “the LBMA could not withstand the resulting legal and financial exposures.”