"New Gazeta": Russia helped to sell Venezuela gold to help President Maduro

On January 31, the New Gazeta reported that Russia may help Venezuela sell its gold reserve-supposedly for this cargo Boeing 757 of the Russian airline Erofei made two flights from Moscow to Karakas through Dubai on January 18-19 and 30.

According to the local sources of the newspaper, the "collection armored cars" of the Central Bank of the UAE met at the Dubai Airport Airport. “Gold was unloaded from the aircraft, and containers with cash dollars were loaded,” the newspaper writes. The New Gazeta also found out that about 30 tons of Venezuelan gold with a total value of about $ 1.2 billion were allegedly in Russian storage facilities. Just on January 30, Venezuela President Nicholas Maduro announced the allocation of a billion euro for the development of the country.

The Central Bank of Russia denied the conclusions of Novaya Gazeta - the head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina said that information about the storage of Venezuelan gold in Russia is not true. The sources of The Bell , close to the financial and economic bloc, expressed doubt that Russia could store Venezuela gold.

Update. Reuters reported that Venezuela was going to sell the UAE in February 29 tons of gold. The source of the agency called the rumors of the involvement of Russian aircraft that did not correspond to reality.

On January 29, information appeared that Russia, on the contrary, could take out 20 tons of gold from Venezuela - this was stated by the deputy of the opposition parliament Jose Garra. Allegedly, for this purpose, another Russian aircraft arrived in Karakas, Boeing 777. The Bloomberg agency notes that although Gerra did not give evidence of his statements, in the past he was an economist in the Central Bank of Venezuela and maintains contact with former colleagues. In addition, another source of Bloomberg confirmed that 20 tons of gold (about 20% of the country's gold reserves) were “set aside” in the local Central Bank. The press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that he “does not have such information”, and called for “accurately relate to different“ ducks ”.”

The United States on January 29 provided the Venezuelan opposition with access to the country's assets in American banks. The Bank of England refused to give Venezuelan gold by 1.2 billion dollars in his storage. According to Bloomberg, this happened after the US appeal, who asked to “cut off” the Nicholas Maduro regime from Venezuela’s assets abroad.