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U.S. says it sanctions Venezuelans in currency scheme
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS JANUARY 8, 2019 / 10:32 AM / UPDATED 42 MINUTES AGO
U.S. says it sanctions Venezuelans in currency scheme
Doina Chiacu, Brian Ellsworth
4 MIN READ
WASHINGTON/CARACAS (Reuters) - The United States imposed sanctions on Tuesday that target a Venezuelan currency exchange network scheme that siphoned billions of dollars to corrupt insiders of the Venezuelan government, the U.S. Treasury Department said.
Seven individuals involved include a former Venezuelan treasurer, Claudia Diaz, and television mogul Raul Antonio Gorrin, who bribed the Venezuelan Treasury in order to conduct illegal foreign exchange operations, according to the U.S. Treasury.
“Venezuelan regime insiders have plundered billions of dollars from Venezuela while the Venezuelan people suffer. Treasury is targeting this currency exchange network which was another illicit scheme that the Venezuelan regime had long used to steal from its people,” Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.
The U.S. Treasury said the former Venezuelan officials and other individuals used favorable foreign exchange transactions through brokerage firms controlled by Gorrin and among very few that were approved by the South American country’s treasury. The individuals concealed their profits in U.S. and European bank accounts and investments, it said.
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U.S. says it sanctions Venezuelans in currency scheme
Doina Chiacu, Brian Ellsworth
4 MIN READ
WASHINGTON/CARACAS (Reuters) - The United States imposed sanctions on Tuesday that target a Venezuelan currency exchange network scheme that siphoned billions of dollars to corrupt insiders of the Venezuelan government, the U.S. Treasury Department said.
Seven individuals involved include a former Venezuelan treasurer, Claudia Diaz, and television mogul Raul Antonio Gorrin, who bribed the Venezuelan Treasury in order to conduct illegal foreign exchange operations, according to the U.S. Treasury.
“Venezuelan regime insiders have plundered billions of dollars from Venezuela while the Venezuelan people suffer. Treasury is targeting this currency exchange network which was another illicit scheme that the Venezuelan regime had long used to steal from its people,” Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.
The U.S. Treasury said the former Venezuelan officials and other individuals used favorable foreign exchange transactions through brokerage firms controlled by Gorrin and among very few that were approved by the South American country’s treasury. The individuals concealed their profits in U.S. and European bank accounts and investments, it said.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-venezuela-sanctions/u-s-says-it-sanctions-venezuelans-in-currency-scheme-idUSKCN1P21LU
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Delcy Eloína defended the seven Venezuelan businessmen sanctioned by the United States
The Cooperator | January 8, 2019
translated from Spanish
https://elcooperante.com/delcy-eloina-defendio-a-los-siete-empresarios-venezolanos-sancionados-por-estados-unidos/
Why is this a big deal to Delcy? Venezuelans don't care about "US sanctions"... you would think that these hard working, innocent people wouldn't care, if they didn't have fat bank accounts that were about to be seized.
FWIW, the only country that recognizes the territory off of the Guyana coast as belonging to Venezuela is... Venezuela.
The Cooperator | January 8, 2019
translated from Spanish
Caracas. -The Vice President of the Republic, Delcy Eloína Rodríguez, spoke on Tuesday about the incorporation of seven Venezuelan businessmen related to the Government of Nicolás Maduro to the list of those sanctioned by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC, for its acronym in Spanish). English).
In a press conference in which she denounced the incursion of two ExxonMobil ships into the Venezuelan maritime territory, the official said that the only body that can issue sanctions is the Security Council of the United Nations Organization.
Among those sanctioned are Claudia Díaz, Leonardo González, María Perdomo, Mayela de Perdomo and Adrián Velásquez, as well as Raúl Gorrín and Gustavo Perdomo, current presidents of the private information channel Globovisión .
Likewise, OFAC sanctioned 23 companies, including Globovisión and Seguros La Vitalicia , related to Gorrín and Perdomo. According to the Associated Press news agency , Gorrin has a year to get rid of his actions from the news channel.
In a press conference in which she denounced the incursion of two ExxonMobil ships into the Venezuelan maritime territory, the official said that the only body that can issue sanctions is the Security Council of the United Nations Organization.
Among those sanctioned are Claudia Díaz, Leonardo González, María Perdomo, Mayela de Perdomo and Adrián Velásquez, as well as Raúl Gorrín and Gustavo Perdomo, current presidents of the private information channel Globovisión .
Likewise, OFAC sanctioned 23 companies, including Globovisión and Seguros La Vitalicia , related to Gorrín and Perdomo. According to the Associated Press news agency , Gorrin has a year to get rid of his actions from the news channel.
https://elcooperante.com/delcy-eloina-defendio-a-los-siete-empresarios-venezolanos-sancionados-por-estados-unidos/
Why is this a big deal to Delcy? Venezuelans don't care about "US sanctions"... you would think that these hard working, innocent people wouldn't care, if they didn't have fat bank accounts that were about to be seized.
FWIW, the only country that recognizes the territory off of the Guyana coast as belonging to Venezuela is... Venezuela.
