How porous is the approving manager/chain that someone can request 300kg of gold bars and no one knows why and they just approve it any way.
That is why this story feels fishy.
Imagine if government approvals were that easy for things the country actually needed, like safe nuclear energy and bullet trains.
I imagine a big difference is at most jobs the worst that will happen is you get fired, at the CIA you go to jail for the rest of your life.