To: d:oug who wrote (60558 ) 11/6/2000 5:54:17 PM From: d:oug Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116753 This is a GNN Special Report - Life of Gold, A Manipulated BIS (Part II) Hello friends of GATA and gold. GATA's Reginald H. Howe quest is now World Wide & growing. Financial Times BIS faces shareholder revolt By John Willman in London and Raphael Minder in Paris Published: November 5 2000 19:47GMT Last Updated: November 6 2000 00:31GMT The Bank for International Settlements, the central bankers' bank, is facing a revolt... over plans to buy back... its shares in private hands. Deminor, a leading... governance consultancy, says it has been approached by shareholders in France and Belgium..... ... considering a legal challenge to the bank's plans at the arbitration tribunal in The Hague, which is the final appeal body for shareholders under the BIS's founding statutes. The Basle-based bank said..... ... buy out its 6,000 private shareholders..... This would leave it wholly owned by 49 central banks, ... now charged with promoting global financial stability. ... now charged with promoting global financial stability. ... now charged with promoting global financial stability. "... forced on the private shareholders is unacceptable," ... private shareholders, who have no voting rights, own shares originally allocated to central banks that did not wish to subscribe to them. Almost half are in the US issue, with a third from France and a fifth from Belgium. ... many of the shareholders had inherited their stakes from their parents who saw them as a substitute for investing in gold..... ... method used [A Manipulated BIS] ... was devised by J.P. Morgan ... was devised by J.P. Morgan ... was devised by J.P. Morgan ... was devised by J.P. Morgan ... was devised by J.P. Morgan ... was devised by J.P. Morgan ... was devised by J.P. Morgan ... was devised by J.P. Morgan ... was devised by J.P. Morgan