United States sanctioned three people, 14 units in 6 boats to search for its restrictions and trade oil of the Maduro regime

The Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.  EFE / Miguel Gutiérrez
The Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. EFE / Miguel Gutiérrez

El Gobierno del presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, imposed in his last days before the change of mandate new sanctions on individuals and entities that, assured, as an objective to commercialize crude Venezuelan evading the penalties that Washington imposed on the PDVSA state oil in 2019.

The State Administration, which first sanctioned this year in June 2020, decided this March update its sanctions and impose economic restrictions on three individuals, 14 entities and 6 boats, indicated the Department of Treasury in a communication.

Según Washington, esta rode misdadiger gevestigde dirigida por el vicepresidente económico de Venezuela, Tareck El Aissami, and the Colombian Empress Alex Saab, supuesto testaferro de Nicolás Maduro, quin se encuentra preso en Cabo Verde a la espera de ser extraditado al norteamericano en el marko un un causa en la estas accusation de blanqueo de dinero.

Alex Saab, Leader of a Venezuelan Petroleum Commercialization Network
Alex Saab, Leader of a Venezuelan Petroleum Commercialization Network

“Those who facilitate the intentions of Maduro’s illegitimate regime to study EU sanctions contribute to the corruption that Venezuela consumes”, Tesoro’s secretary, Steven Mnuchin, spoke in a statement.

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 to the Asian market.

Agreed with the Treasury, following the arrest of Saab in Cape Verde – in June 2020 – and the sanctions imposed on Mexican Emperor Joaquín Leal, Bazzooni is in charge of coordinating the negotiation for the sale of PDVSA’s Venezuelan oil and the transport fleet.

Miistro del Petróleo de Venezuela, Tareck El Aissami
Miistro del Petróleo de Venezuela, Tareck El Aissami

También has been sanctioned by Spanish-Venezuelan citizens Francisco Javier D’Agostino Casado, who works with Saab, Leal and Bazzoni to coordinate the purchase and sale of crude in the name of Pdvsa.

The other designated by the Treasury is the Swiss Philipp Paul Vartan Apikian, owner and director of Swissoil, which, according to EEUU, has also been involved in the sale and transport of petroleum from Venezuela.

Result of Washington’s esta acción, all the properties and assets that these individuals or companies can hold in the EU or are in the position of state clients from being blocked, and are likely to carry out citizenship of North American countries with them.

The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, works with Tareck El Aissami.  EFE / MIGUEL GUTIÉRREZ
The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, works with Tareck El Aissami. EFE / MIGUEL GUTIÉRREZ

Since its launch at Casa Blanca in 2017, Trump’s governor has imposed numerous rounds of economic sanctions on Maduro’s Executive, which he considers ‘illegitimate’, just as decades of global warming.

The EU is one of the main allies of the Venezuelan government and Juan Guaidó., reunited in 2019 as president internship with more than a hundred centenarians. Hecho, also this March, the Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, indicated that he spoke by telephone with Guaidó to “reaffirm our unwavering support for the champions of democracy” in the Caribbean.

The word of the card, Morgan Ortagus consigned in a letter note that Pompeo and Guaidó “discuss the objective of a democratic and pacific transition af Venezuela ”and also talk about the response of the United States to its leadership, as well as the freedom and dignity of all Venezuelans.

For its part, the Governor of Venezuela hopes that the new Democratic Administration Joe Biden, who will preside over the EU Presidency, will, on Wednesday, be associated with the “decency movement”, accompanied by the international and established “respectful diplomatic channels”.

Queda por ver what will be the policy on Biden, which supports a more pragmatic and less ideological approach. In principle, the elected mandate has invited the representative of the internal governor in the North American country, Carlos Vecchio, to his position.

With EFE information

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