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Exclusive: Venezuela removed 8 tons of central bank gold last week – legislator
The Foreign Desk ^ | Feb 27, 2019 | Corina Pons and Mayela Armas

Posted on 02/28/2019 1:39:34 PM PST by detective

At least 8 tons of gold were removed from the Venezuelan central bank's vaults last week, an opposition legislator and three government sources told Reuters, in the latest sign of President Nicolas Maduro's desperation to raise hard currency amid tightening sanctions.

The gold was removed in government vehicles between Wednesday and Friday last week when there were no regular security guards present at the bank, Legislator Angel Alvarado and the three government sources said.

"They plan to sell it abroad illegally," Alvarado said in an interview.

The central bank did not respond to requests for comment.

Alvarado and the government sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not say where the central bank was sending the gold. They said the operation took place while central bank head Calixto Ortega was abroad on a trip.

In 2018, 23 tons of mined gold were transported from Venezuela to Istanbul by plane, according to sources and Turkish government data.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Cuba; Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia
KEYWORDS: cuba; fake; fakenews; hugochavez; juanguaido; maduro; nicaragua; nicolasmaduro; russia; venezuela
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Maduro's government has resorted to selling off gold after falling oil production, the country's wider economic collapse and mounting sanctions hit public income and made it hard for the country to access credit.
1 posted on 02/28/2019 1:39:34 PM PST by detective
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To: detective

About $300 million. It won’t last him very long.


2 posted on 02/28/2019 1:42:26 PM PST by rightwingcrazy (,)
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To: detective

Cue the fat lady


3 posted on 02/28/2019 1:42:34 PM PST by onona (It is often wise to allow a person a graceful path.)
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To: detective

It’s going into Maduro’s bank account. He knows his days are numbered.


4 posted on 02/28/2019 1:42:41 PM PST by Fungi
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To: detective

A Russian aircraft took away something like 22 tons of Venezuelan gold just a few weeks ago.


5 posted on 02/28/2019 1:45:10 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: rightwingcrazy

8 tons?
They’re rookies.
I wonder how many tons the Catholic church has stolen from the Americas over the centuries?


6 posted on 02/28/2019 1:48:36 PM PST by 9422WMR
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To: rightwingcrazy

You know, $320 million just doesn’t go as far as it used to...

With the 23 tons of gold shipped out last year, this pegs his rough overall cash-out at around $1.24 billion.


7 posted on 02/28/2019 1:49:05 PM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: detective

Apparently Maduro’s attempt to ship 20 tons of Venezuelan gold out of the country, which became public on February 2 of this year, was called off due to international pressure, which consisted largely of US sanctions.

A week before the attempted 20-ton move (worth about $850 million), the Bank of England had denied a request from Maduro to withdraw $1.2B worth of bullion.


8 posted on 02/28/2019 1:51:11 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: rightwingcrazy

Its the national equivalent of taking great-grandma’s silverware and tea-service to the pawn shop


9 posted on 02/28/2019 1:52:11 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Fungi

Where’s he going, I wonder? Florida?


10 posted on 02/28/2019 1:52:17 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: detective

Unless we invade with the airborne Rangers and kill Maduro and those that enable him, he will be leader of Venezuela a long long time, just like Castro. He who has the guns, rules. all this cia sponsored food for peace crap never works against communists. Silly.


11 posted on 02/28/2019 1:55:09 PM PST by guyman
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Probably Maduro is shipping it to China in anticipation of his fleeing there and joining up with it. China will shield him from the West


12 posted on 02/28/2019 2:01:27 PM PST by chuckee
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To: rightwingcrazy

I could just see the Pelosi’s, the water’s the Jackson lee’s stuffing our gold bars in their shorts as they run for the door after the fall of socialism in America, couldn’t you?


13 posted on 02/28/2019 2:04:33 PM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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That’s what was done by the Spanish Commies (aka, “Republicans” in an attempt to make them sound legitimate and respectable). They shipped out all of the Spanish gold reserves directly from Valencia to the USSR. Later the leftists said that it was for weapons purchases, and indeed the Russians sent them some weapons..from the Crimean War.

The USSR directly controlled the “Republican”” forces in Spain. The commanders in Barcelona and Valencia were RussIan.

In any case, they always want to get the gold.


14 posted on 02/28/2019 2:14:31 PM PST by livius
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To: miss marmelstein

“Where’s he going, I wonder? Florida?”

Try again.


15 posted on 02/28/2019 2:14:57 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: chuckee

Maduro’s number 2 guy fled to China with his family already.


16 posted on 02/28/2019 2:18:08 PM PST by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: detective

All the gold from Venezuela
is in a bank in the middle of Istanbul
in Nick Maduro’s name.

So if you thinkin’ about Venezuela
it don’t matter how many bolivars you got,
toilet paper’s your claim to fame.


17 posted on 02/28/2019 2:18:26 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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Nicely done...

I remember seeing the Gatlin Bros sing that at the Indiana State Fair back in the early 80s


18 posted on 02/28/2019 2:20:12 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: detective

He’s lining his nest...in Moscow.


19 posted on 02/28/2019 2:20:15 PM PST by moovova
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To: sparklite2

;)


20 posted on 02/28/2019 2:21:58 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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