Actually the seven years to return Germany's gold has been all over the news for a while now. This isn't a new thing. If you go and use your Google-Fu to research it, you'll find that the story is entirely true. Several nations have been repatriating their physical gold reserves in the last couple of years. I don't blame them. If you can't pick it up and hold it, you don't own it.
Thralen
Yup, this "news" is at least a few months old. It's the "FED" that's sketchy, nobody really knows how much gold they have / don't have. Freebanking is either out to lunch, or possibly a sock puppet??