In a secret mission spanning several months, more than a hundred tonnes of gold bars were transported from London back to Poland.
It's unclear if the 8,000 gold bars were all of Poland's gold reserves moved to and stored in the Bank of England just before the Nazi German invasion during World War Two.
The bars have an estimated worth of 4 billion GBP.
According to G4S, the security company that transported the gold bars, it took eight flights in a span of months to carry out the secret mission.
The last trip was early morning on November 22 when four trucks, escorted by police and helicopter, drove from a facility in London heading to an unnamed airport.
On board the trucks were the last 20 boxes of gold. They were loaded onto a Boeing 737 freighter plane.
Last week, Poland's central bank gave journalists a brief tour of the vault where the gold bars were being kept temporarily.
In a news conference, central bank governor Adam Glapiński said Poland could keep buying gold as the country's economy grows, potentially doubling the proportion of total reserves held in the metal.
The bank has bought more than 125 tonnes of gold worth about $6 billion at current prices since the start of last year, taking its total hoard to 228.6 tonnes.
Gold now accounts for around 10% of Poland's reserves, roughly in line with the global average but half the average in Europe, according to the central bank.
Autor: gf / Źródło: TVN24 News in English, Reuters
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