Washington, United States
The President of the EE.UU President, Donald Trump, has been stabbed this March with sanctions against members of a red carpet led by Colombian Emperor Alex Saab and with an objective goal of commemorating the cruel Venezuelan evading the penalties imposed on Washington PDVSA state petrol in 2019.
The State Administration, which first sanctioned this year in June 2020, decided this March (and one day that Trump left the White House) to update its sanctions and impose economic restrictions on three individuals, 14 entities and 6 boats, indico the Department of Treasury in a communication.
According to Washington, this red criminal establishment is headed by Venezuela’s Economic Vice President Tareck El Aissami and the Colombian Empress Alex Saab, supuesto testaferro del presidente Venezolano Nicolás Maduro y que se encuentra preso en Cabo Verde a la espera de ser extradita ad EE.UU., accusado de blanqueo de dinero.
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“Those who facilitate the intentions of Maduro’s illegitimate regime to lift EE.UU sanctions contribute to the corruption that consumes Venezuela”, stated in a statement the Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin.
Between the sanctioned figure the Italian Alessandro Bazzoni, which is additionally framed to connect to other sanctioned companies: Elemento, with seat in Malta and which was purchased by Pdvsa, and Swissoil, with seat in Switzerland and which is mounted to transport Venezuelan crude in the Asian market.
Agreed with the Treasury, following the arrest in June 2020 of Saab in Cape Verde and the sanctions against the Mexican emperor Joaquín Leal, Bazzooni is responsible for coordinating the negotiations for the sale of petroleum from the PDVSA’s Venezuelan fleet and the fleet to transport the crude.
The Spanish-Venezuelan citizen Francisco Javier D’Agostino Casado, who worked with Saab, Leal and Bazzoni to coordinate the purchase and sale of crude in the name of Pdvsa, has also been sanctioned.
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The other designed by the Treasury is the brother Philipp Paul Vartan Apikian, owner and director of Swissoil, who, according to EE.UU., was involved in the sale and transport of petroleum from Venezuela.
As a result of this action by Washington, all the properties and assets that these individuals or companies can hold in EE.UU. it is in the position of stadium quedan bloceados, and it is probable any transaction of eE.UU citizens. with them.
Since its inauguration of the White House in 2017, the Trump administration has imposed numerous rounds of economic sanctions against the Maduro Executive, which is considered “illegitimate”.
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EE.UU. have one of the most beloved allies of Venezuelan leader Juan Guaidó, reunited in 2019 as Venezuela’s interim president for more than a hundred centenarians.
El Gobierno de Venezuela hopes that the new Administrator of the Democrat Joe Biden, who will assume the Presidency of the EE.UU. mañana, mercoles, tenga “atisbos de decencia”, complied with the international law and established “diplomatic channels of respectful dialogue”.
What will happen will be Biden’s sovereignty policy, which is driven by a more pragmatic and less ideological approach.