"The executorial decision of Mr. Juan Negrín has caused me A few foreign newspapers are in the business of publishing articles about the Spanish gold deposited twenty years ago in the Soviet Union, without mentioning all the consumption of such gold by the Spanish Republican government, which confuses the public opinion creating the impression that there is still non-utilized leftovers of such gold. A socialist minister asked for authorization to proceed freely; the Government, which was formed by another five socialists, including he who presided it, conceded to such a request, and the bank agents that handed over as much as they were asked were also socialists, in Spain as in Russia, as well as the countrymen that convoyed the load between Madrid and Cartagena.We are in the presence of a colossal embezzlement.

Of all the gold reserves kept in store in the basements of the bank of spain on july 18, 1936, only came back the first ones the bank of spain deposited to the bank of france to back its credits. Whatever my opinion of Juan Negrín were, I declare him incapable of the terrible joke of arranging that after his death -if he so arranged it- a document that nothing positive represented should be handed over to Franco [...] although all these expenses were done based on the gold deposited in Russia, its complete exhaustion is impossible. Gold rate in Spain 24-hour realtime spot gold price live in Spain. In the third season, they target the Bank of Spain for its gold and to pressure authorities to release one of their imprisoned gang members.Angry protesters gather outside the central bank at the urging of the gang’s mastermind, El Profesor, who asks Spaniards to show up en masse to back what he calls their “resistance.”Some of that resentment has faded amid a robust economic recovery and Bank of Spain Governor Pablo Hernandez de Cos Unlike in the Netflix series, the governor doesn’t have five paramilitary-like body guards. In the beginning murder was committed because of rancour, malice, bestiality.... Now, except the murder committed among themselves, the crimes of the reds are committed in a cold-blooded fashion, impulsed by the zeal of robbery... accompanied by the undermining of human life.The USSR has not even bothered to recognize the Republican Government in exile.

Historians have questioned the legality of the gold's movement. That frees the Soviet Union, among other things, from the obligation to listen to their claims on the gold deposited by the Government of Dr. Negrín in the security vaults of the Central Bank of the USSR. The Bank of Spain (Spanish: Banco de España) is the central bank of Spain. The portal then leads to a 35-meter (115-feet) elevator shaft down to an ante-chamber that leads across a retractable drawbridge to a second armored gate.It’s that space which would flood if real-life robbers were to break through the first door and activate the security system.Since construction of the gold vault finished in the mid-1930s, there has never been an “attempt to enter without authorization,” the Bank of Spain says.The folklore that’s built up around the vault proved irresistible to the makers of La Casa de Papel and its fans. Barriers to would-be raiders include three greased steel doors In them, the value of an ounce of gold troy was converted into pounds sterling, U.S dollars or French francs according to the exchange rate at the With the Spanish gold deposited in Moscow, the Soviets immediately demanded from the Republican government payment for the first deliveries of war supplies, which had apparently arrived as a gift to combat international Historians that have had access to the "Negrín dossier" believe that the Soviets did not abuse their position nor did they defraud the Spanish in their financial transactions. At an international level, Gerald Howson and Daniel Kowalsky have had direct access to the documents of the archives of the Soviet Union opened to researchers during the 1990s, focusing their investigations on the relations between the Soviet Union and the Spanish Republic, and the deliveries of military material.Even though the decision to use the gold reserves has not given rise to much debate or interest among historians,510 tonnes of gold transferred from Republican Spain to the Soviet Union in 1936By His Excellence the President of the Republic, on the 13th of this present month, the following confidential decree has been signed: The abnormal situation created within the country by the military insurrection compels the government to adopt these precautionary measures considered necessary to safeguard the metallic reserves of the Bank of Spain, basis of the public credit. This operation must be carried out in the utmost secrecy.The new Spanish State must openly face the challenges of a damaged national economy, caused by the unbelievable act of withdrawing the gold and banknotes from the Bank of Spain. It was illegal, because being the gold exclusive property of the Bank, neither the State nor the Government could take hold of it. The Bank of Spain would not become state property until the passage of Law-Decree 18/1962 of July 7 of 1962, on Nationalization and Reorganization of the Bank of Spain (Modified on January 24 of 1927 and amended by Law on November 26 of 1931.Between February 18, 1931 and the following April 15.According to Viñas, the process was guided by the maxim "salus patriae, suprema lex". Fahy says he’s visited hundreds of vaults in his search to rent or buy them from banks that are closing down.By definition, the steps taken by governments to protect the world’s gold remain mysterious. From Ft. Knox to the silver vaults in London, some bank vaults are so impregnable they defy logic. However, most scholars on the subject, such as Original Act in the Historical Archive of the Bank of Spain.Dirección general de Política Económica, Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Madrid, legajo R 9562, expediente 6, quoted in: