I had to go through the International Monetary Fund (IMF) report on
El Salvador's fund facility and found this:
Most end-March targets, on the primary balance, external and financial buffers, were met with margins, and the overall stock of Bitcoin held by the public sector has remained unchanged since program approval
El Salvador and the IMF signed this new deal in December 2024. The report states clearly that they have not bought any Bitcoin since January. I was expecting Salvador’s Bitcoin Office and the National Commission of Digital Assets to dispute this report but they were silent.
If they publicly dispute it, it could cause them problems. It is better to silently continue doing what you are doing. Even if it were true, all it shows that they had more BTC than was expected by the public. In any case eventually the counter must reach the real number after which they would have to stop counting or buy more BTC.