Another scandal threatens to hit the libertine government of the stateless Javier Milei . On this occasion it involves the authorities of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (BCRA) , who at the request of a loan that the Ministry of Economy has been negotiating with the Bank of Basel (Switzerland) would have removed gold reserves from the country , since the Swiss entity usually requires gold backing to grant fresh funds .
The National Secretary General of the Banking Association and Deputy of the Nation, Sergio Omar Palazzo , presented a request for public information so that the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (BCRA), chaired by Santiago Bausili , partner and right-hand man of the Minister of Economy , Luis Caputo , give details on suspicious operations detected by the union he leads .
The union extraction deputy asked the BCRA to report "if there are operations to send gold bars abroad during the month of June, especially if on 6/7/2024 there was a shipment and on 06/28/2024 there were other" . In addition, it requests confirmation whether these operations would have been carried out through the cash carrier Loomis (Securitas Cash Handling Services) and the airline British Airways .
In addition, Palazzo demands that the BCRA Board report "what amount, for what amount and in what currency has been carried out, under what commercial or other characteristics, to what destination" the two aforementioned operations carried out during June of this year, since La Bancaria has a strong suspicion that between both operations some 450 million dollars would have been transferred, presumably in gold bullion.
As reported by the portal La Política On Line , the union led by Palazzo “for now is waiting for the legal deadline to be met for the BCRA to respond to the request for reports” and suggest that the issue “threatens to become "A serious problem for Bausili and it is assumed that he could end up in court."
The thing is that, as Sergio Palazzo warns in the note he addressed to Santiago Bausili himself and to the entire Board of Directors of the BCRA , in the event “if this party's request is rejected, we leave the existence of a federal case raised in order to eventually resort to the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation by means of extraordinary appeal.”
It should be noted that, as reported by the newspaper Ámbito , at the end of March of this year, the BCRA held “a position in gold of 61.7 tons according to international statistics, being the country number 50 in the ranking of the main 100 world holders of gold .
As reported by the aforementioned Buenos Aires morning newspaper, at that time, those tons of gold were equivalent to more than 4.3 billion dollars, according to the price of the London LBMA market .
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