Central bank gold sales equaled return of leased gold

``Among other things, Speck shows that the gold sold by central banks since 2001 was equaled by the leased gold returned to them. This strongly supports suspicions long expressed by GATA and others that the supposed central bank gold sales of the last decade were just cash settlements for leased gold that could not be recovered by the central banks without exploding the gold price upward and bankrupting the investment banks that had leased the gold...''