Just when one thought the story of Ukraine and its (now non-existant) gold could not get any more surreal, it did. As a reminder, it was about a month ago when we learned courtesy of an interview on Ukraine TV with the countrys central bank head Valeriya Gontareva, that Ukraines gold was virtually all gone, when she made the stunning admission that in the vaults of the central bank there is almost no gold left. There is a small amount of gold bullion left, but its just 1% of reserves. That in itself would have been sufficient to explain why just a few short days later, the Netherlands shocked the world when it announced it had secretly repatriated 122 tonnes of gold from the NY Fed, and had the story of Ukraines missing gold ended there (or even with the criminal probe launched by Ukraine whether the central bank head had abused her power and misused her office when she intentionally committed an extremely unfavorable transaction for the gold and forex reserves of Ukraine), it still would have been one of the most bizarre, surreal stories of 2014. Luckily, the story just got far better, and far, far more bizarre and surreal. As Bloomberg reports, Ukraine opened a criminal probe after several gold bars at the central bank’s storage in the southern city of Odessa turned to be painted lead. zerohedge/news/2014-12-22/ukraine-central-bank-conned-swapping-its-gold-lead-bricks
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:30:29 +0000
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