The Venezuelan Public Ministry will formalize a Application to the United States of Criminal Cooperation for alleged acts of corruption of those who accuse opponentsamong them to the former president of the Juan Guaidó National Assembly, prosecutor Tarek William Saab said Monday.
In a telephone contact with the Minister of Communications, Freddy Ñáñez, in the program Ground cableSaab said that Guaidó and other opponents made a “party with the theft of assets of companies such as Citgo, a subsidiary of the state -owned PDVSA” in the American nation.
Saab declared that the theft of assets financed the money transferred from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to the Venezuelan opposition, referring to the Guaidó activity period.
Accusations against Venezuelan opponents
He affirmed that it is a legitimation of capital that make “opponents in favor of themselves.” TOHe also cusa the former mayor Leopoldo López and David Smolansky, the former president of Parliament Julio Borges and Carlos Vecchio, who was a representative in the US under the administration of Guaidówhom Washington recognized as an interim president of Venezuela.
The prosecutor said that the institution has accumulated 25 investigations of everything that, he said, “the corruption plot developed by Guaidó implied, whose extradition Wait is made when Washington accepts cooperation, as well as that of other opponents exiled in the US.
In that sense, he hoped that they can then arrange the aforementioned and apply the maximum penalty: 30 years in prison in Venezuela.
Nicolás Maduro, who swore as president before Parliament – controlled by Chavismo – after his questioned re -election, said in January that he is making efforts to deport Guaidó, for which he issued a capture order in October 2023.
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