Operation Tunisia

[Jan Klimkowski]

Naughty, naughty, naughty.

When the Vodka swilling Boris Yeltsin took over the Soviet Union from Mikhail Gorbachev, the entire central bank gold reserves "disappeared".

"Just like that".

Most went to Switzerland, but it was noted in a UK national that some arrived in the UK for "re-smelting" (i.e., laundering).

I mention this only because it is standard operating procedure to plunder the nation and its treasury if you're being overthrown. I also mention it because it is standard operating procedure for those in power to automatically consider the nations assets are actually their own.

That's why they want power.

All that tosh about "public service" is utter rubbish, obviously.

Remeber the first post (also via Zero Hedge) in the Egypt thread here:

a week ago we learned that the central bank of Tunisia had parted with 23% of its gold stash courtesy of now deposed president who fled the country with a 1.5 ton shipment of gold, it appears that Egypt is preparing for a comparable spike in revolutionary activity. Only unlike the now former Tunisian president whose gold sequestering actions were retroactive and thus, quite lucky to succeed, Egypt has taken proactive measures. According to Egypt News, the country's airport has intercepted 59 shipments of gold directed for the Netherlands "worth tens of millions." The gold, as well as an indeterminate amount of foreign currencies, was hidden in pillow cases: uh, cotton may not show up on X-Rays, but gold sure does. We eagerly await to learn how big the decline in the country's official holdings 75.6 tonnes of gold will be after this most recent episode confirming that gold is precisely money. And all this happening despite gold's complete and thorough inedibility.

https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/sho...t's-Ouster

Of course the instances noted above represent the Egyptian regime stopping "unauthorized" export of gold etc.

Whereas, as David notes, the looting and plundering of gold from the national treasury is usually sanctioned by the fleeing leader and his trusty aides, and a large part ends up being laundered by western banks.