Russia Says IMF Chief Jailed For Discovering All US Gold Is Gone By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers May 31, 2011   A new report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Federal Security Service (FSB) says that former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn [photo with Putin L-1] was charged and jailed in the US for sex crimes on May 14th after his discovery that all of the gold held in the United States Bullion Depository located at Fort Knox [photo L-2] was ‘missing and/or unaccounted’ for. According to this FSB secret report, Strauss-Kahn had become “increasingly concerned” earlier this month after the United States began “stalling” its pledged delivery to the IMF of 191.3 tons of gold agreed to under the Second Amendment of the Articles of Agreement signed by the Executive Board in April 1978 that were to be sold to fund what are called Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) as an alternative to what are called reserve currencies. This FSB report further states that upon Strauss-Kahn raising his concerns with American government officials close to President Obama he was ‘contacted’ by ‘rogue elements’ within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who provided him ‘firm evidence’ that all of the gold reported to be held by the US ‘was gone’. Upon Strauss-Kahn receiving the CIA evidence, this report continues, he made immediate arrangements to leave the US for Paris, but when contacted by agents working for France’s General Directorate for External Security (DGSE) that American authorities were seeking his capture he fled to New York City’s JFK airport following these agents directive not to take his cell-phone because US police could track his exact location. Once Strauss-Kahn was safely boarded on an Air France flight to Paris, however, this FSB report says he made a ‘fatal mistake’ by calling the hotel from a phone on the plane and asking them to forwarded the cell-phone he had been told to leave behind to his French residence, after which US agents were able to track and apprehend him. Within the past fortnight, this report continues, Strauss-Kahn reached out to his close friend and top Egyptian banker Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar to retrieve from the US the evidence given to him by the CIA. Omar, however, and exactly like Strauss-Kahn before him, was charged yesterday by the US with a sex crime against a luxury hotel maid, a charge the FSB labels as ‘beyond belief’ due to Omar being 74-years-old and a devout Muslim. In an astounding move puzzling many in Moscow, Putin after reading this secret FSB report today ordered posted to the Kremlin’s official website a defense of Strauss-Khan becoming the first world leader to state that the former IMF chief was a victim of a US conspiracy. Putin further stated, “It’s hard for me to evaluate the hidden political motives but I cannot believe that it looks the way it was initially introduced. It doesn’t sit right in my head.” Interesting to note about all of these events is that one of the United States top Congressman, and 2012 Presidential candidate, Ron Paul [photo L-4] has long stated his belief that the US government has lied about its gold reserves held at Fort Knox.  So concerned had Congressman Paul become about the US government and the Federal Reserve hiding the truth about American gold reserves he put forward a bill in late 2010 to force an audit of them, but which was subsequently defeated by Obama regime forces. When directly asked by reporters if he believed there was no gold in Fort Knox or the Federal Reserve, Congressman Paul gave the incredible reply, “I think it is a possibility.” Also interesting to note is that barely 3 days after the arrest of Strauss-Kahn, Congressman Paul made a new call for the US to sell its gold reserves by stating, “Given the high price it is now, and the tremendous debt problem we now have, by all means, sell at the peak.” Bizarre reports emanating from the US for years, however, suggest there is no gold to sell, and as we can read as posted in 2009 on the ViewZone.Com news site: “In October of 2009 the Chinese received a shipment of gold bars. Gold is regularly exchanges between countries to pay debts and to settle the so-called balance of trade. Most gold is exchanged and stored in vaults under the supervision of a special organization based in London, the London Bullion Market Association (or LBMA). When the shipment was received, the Chinese government asked that special tests be performed to guarantee the purity and weight of the gold bars. In this test, four small holed are drilled into the gold bars and the metal is then analyzed. Officials were shocked to learn that the bars were fake. They contained cores of tungsten with only a outer coating of real gold. [photo L-3] What's more, these gold bars, containing serial numbers for tracking, originated in the US and had been stored in Fort Knox for years. There were reportedly between 5,600 to 5,700 bars, weighing 400 oz. each, in the shipment!” To the final fate of Strauss-Kahn it is not in our knowing, but new reports coming from the United States show his determination not to go down without a fight as he has hired what is described as a ‘crack team’ of former CIA spies, private investigators and media advisers to defend him. To the practical effects on the global economy should it be proved that the US, indeed, has been lying about its gold reserves, Russia’s Central Bank yesterday ordered the interest rate raised from 0.25 to 3.5 percent and Putin ordered the export ban on wheat and grain crops lifted by July 1st in a move designed to fill the Motherlands coffers with money that normally would have flowed to the US. The American peoples ability to know the truth of these things, and as always, has been shouted out by their propaganda media organs leaving them in danger of not being prepared for the horrific economic collapse of their nation now believed will much sooner than later.

 

 

  6月6日晚，国际货币基金组织前总裁斯特劳斯-卡恩出现在纽约曼哈顿法庭。但是，关于他被拘捕的争议，仍在升温！

　　据外媒报道，一份由俄罗斯联邦国家安全局提供的报告显示，卡恩掌握美国肯塔基北部诺克斯堡的191.3吨黄金储备“失踪或下落不明”的证据，则是他被美国情报部门拘捕的重要原因。

　　卡恩案似乎越来越复杂，无论FSB报告是否属实，围绕着回归黄金货币属性的博弈正在悄然升级，就在5月底，欧洲议会经济和货币事务委员会积极推动结算所接受黄金作为抵押品，而大型投资银行、美联储、欧洲议会与欧盟理事会等各方却有着自己的盘算。

　　黄金套息交易“隐患”

　　截至6月7日20点，COMEX黄金期货8月合约徘徊在1547美元/盎司附近，美国肯塔基北部诺克斯堡黄金储备“失踪”传闻的曝光，并未触发黄金价格大幅跳涨。

　　“由于美联储黄金失踪传闻没有证实，不足以令市场大举买涨黄金。”一位美国银行期货经纪商表示。

　　然而，大型投资银行却仿佛“坐立不安”，在卡恩被拘捕后的过去两周，以大型投资银行为主的掉期交易商骤增13226口黄金净空口头头寸，尽管期间他们必须承担COMEX黄金期货8月合约涨幅超过3%的沽空损失。

　　“一旦黄金价格由于美国黄金储备失踪而跳涨，投资银行则只能以更高价格回购黄金归还欧美央行，6月底是黄金套息交易的集中到期日。”一家投资银行大宗交易部主管透露。

　　无论美国肯塔基北部诺克斯堡黄金储备“失踪”是否属实，但欧美央行与大型投资银行之间的黄金套息交易隐患已“浮出水面”。

　　在黄金交易市场，悄然流行着某种“黄金套息交易”，由于欧美中央银行存放巨额黄金储备得不到任何利息收入，于是个别国家央行便将黄金储备“借给”大型商业银行，按LIBOR+若干基点收取相应黄金拆出利率；而大型商业银行拆入巨额黄金储备，一边在黄金期货市场套现，一边将这笔资金购买更高利率的美国国债等金融投资品，在投资收益与黄金拆借利息支出之间赚取“利差”，通常，只要大型投资银行能按时将拆借黄金储备如数归还欧美央行，黄金套息交易将是皆大欢喜。

　　“但是，实际情况并非如此。”他补充说，一方面是大型投资银行从个别国家央行拆借的黄金储备期限多是半年、一年期，但他们却买进高利率的中长期债券等投资品种，往往会导致资产错配，有时无法按时把黄金储备如数归还给央行。