>>3805722 (lb) Am all for not giving the gold to the animal Maduro. Suspect however that the BOE is using the US sanctions on Venezuelan gold deals as a fig leaf. Decent chance they either don't even have a measly 14 tons left in London or they don't have those specific allocated bars, or they "could" return it but their overall gold situation is so precarious that they can't risk it.

>>3806110 Not over 2,000 people in that image, and you know that this is the best possible angle they could shoot to make it look as large as possible. Fail!