The FBI has tracked money from an alleged multi- million dollar global fraud and
the murder of a wealthy Californian woman to the Perth Mint.

Pamela Fayed, 44, was fatally stabbed in a carpark the day before a judge was to
rule on her $1 million divorce settlement from James Fayed and while she was
helping the FBI look into her husband's investments.

Mr Fayed, 47, is charged with paying a hit man $25,000 to kill his wife in July
2008 and fraud over the couple's online gold trading company.

The WA Supreme Court has frozen a Perth Mint account of gold and silver bullion
and cash held by the Fayed company Gold Bullion Reserve Corporation, which has
investment links to another Fayed company, Goldfinger Coin and Bullion.

The value of the frozen assets is not known but US prosecutors claim Goldfinger
received and transferred more than $20 million from investment scheme victims
over eight months in 2005 and 2006.

WA Justice Jeremy Allanson said material showed Mr Fayed and GCB knew accounts
were used for fraudulent schemes and they helped conduct those schemes.

Mrs Fayed, a jeweller, and her husband, an electrical contractor, set up
Goldfinger in 2001 as a legitimate firm to buy and store precious metals for
clients, Forbes magazine reported. It then moved into digital currency.

According to Forbes, Mrs Fayed was unhappy when the group became involved in
suspect Ponzi schemes and tried to disassociate herself from that business.
Their acrimonious divorce began in October 2007.

Prosecutors in the California District Court in August 2008 alleged that Mrs
Fayed was asked to meet her husband's criminal defence lawyer in Los Angeles on
the day she died. She parked in a multi-storey carpark next to the lawyer's
office for the three-hour meeting after which Mr Fayed stayed in the office.

It was alleged a tall man ambushed her at her car.

The killer was seen in a vehicle allegedly rented with a credit card issued to
Mr Fayed and Goldfinger.
The Gold Bullion Reserve Corporation reportedly has vaults in Switzerland, the
US and WA. It is not clear why Mr Fayed deposited money in the Perth Mint.