“The Bank of England breached his gold deliveries, revealing that his gold reserves only existed on paper. (…) Where is the Polish gold that was stored there?” Messages like this have been reproduced in different social media profiles. Given this, the Polish media He has analyzed the publications and has discovered a Russian hand behind these false information.
According to the same medium, another publication of another X user that spread the bulge that the gold warehouses of the Bank of England were empty, also used a satirical drawing with subtitles in Russian as an illustration. He showed the entrance to the British prime minister’s office in Downing Street in London and a sign with the registration: “There is no gold. And no deliveries are expected. Glory to Ukraine.”
Everything indicates that this is simply another piece of Kremlin propaganda, he says. There are more Russian traces in the history of the supposed “empty warehouses” of the Bank of England. There are no credible reports about fictitious reserves of the Bank of England or “empty” warehouses, so he states that this information is false. The objective of its creators is to generate discomfort in Western societies and undermine the reputation of reliable institutions.
In addition, the Polish media indicates that by introducing the satirical image mentioned in the images of image search engines there are many copies in social media profiles in Russian language. In some publications, even, it is signed as the work of the Vitaly Podvitsky cartoonist, who periodically publishes satirical cartoons that repeat messages of Russian propaganda.
Neither on the website of the National Bank of Poland (NBP) nor in any other reliable source information about a threat to the Polish gold reserves deposited in the Bank of England can be found, remarks the same medium.
According to the information obtained from the Polish Bank in January 2024 by economist Rafał Mundry, Polish reserves are stored in the NBP vaults in Poland, at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York and in the Bank of England. Gold is collected in 12.5 kilograms linges with a minimum gold content of 99.5%.
