This rumour cannot be confirmed at all because it was only brought up by the American newsletter writer Jim Willie who never came up even with a slight hint as to where he gathered this quite spectacular rumour. You should ask him personally why he decided to publish such a bewildering scenario which is highly unlikely and falls short of his otherwise interesting and plausible reasoning in the field of precious metals.
Thanks for the reply, Auratico. Jim Willie has always been one of my favorite reads - although more for "entertainment value" than hard facts.
I actually mentioned his latest rumor in a recent silver commentary, where Willie "reported" that India may have paid for their IMF gold - with silver (lol)! I saw through that one, but a request by the German government to get their gold back is much more plausible.