The setting: It’s 2am, on a brisk March night at Boryspil airport in Ukraine. Four unmarked trucks and two cargo minibuses drive onto the air strip. Fifteen dark figures in black uniforms – armed with body armor and machine guns – step out of the vehicles and start hurriedly loading an unregistered transport plane with over 40 heavy boxes.
This isn’t the latest Tom Clancy novel (although it could be), but rather an actual report that surfaced last March. Since then, speculations have arisen over whether the mysterious operation was “the price of Ukraine’s liberation” as it handed over nearly all of its gold reserves to the U.S.
Well that suspicion resurfaced when the head of the Ukraine Central Bank recently admitted on national TV that most of the nation’s gold is gone, saying:
“In the vaults of the central bank there is almost no gold left. There is a small amount of gold bullion left, but it’s just 1% of reserves.”
As the editors at ZeroHedge are quick to point out, the fact that several billion dollars worth of gold bullion simply ‘vanished’ just as Ukraine received Western aid is more than a little suspicious. Or as some might say, not unrelated.
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