Great robbery in Venezuela

The embezzlement of a figure between 23 and 26 billion dollars, profit from uncollected oil exports, is the consequence of a well-planned plan. To prepare for the fulfillment of this massive theft, the national government of Venezuela established the necessary conditions. Among which is dismantling internal controls and making the fleet of ships owned by Petróleos de Venezuela disappear, to explain the hiring of private tankers, with flags from other countries, diverse and friends.

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The Venezuelan president approved the Anti-Blockade Law in October 2020, drafted by him, according to his statement. With this totally illegal element, all controls and the obligation to offer and demonstrate accounts on oil sales were annulled, the power authorized itself to sign contracts with any company, inside and outside the country, for the sale of Petroleum. Immediately the law was approved, the alarms went off. In the press of several countries, the general content was denounced and, in particular, of article 19, which gave power to the president of the nation and the president of PDVSA to do business with anyone, without surveillance without explanation.

The means with which they acted were; The first consisted of sharing ships loaded with oil left and right: with military business owners, politicians and members of the ruling party, representatives associated with the regime, senior officials from other countries with dictatorial regimes. The second is that these gentlemen, new operators in the oil business, were given the shipments with significant discounts, with a double condition: they had to deposit a part of the payment in accounts in certain countries; Russia, Belarus, Turkey, Bulgaria and others and bring the remaining estimates to the capital of the Venezuelan country, in suitcases full of dollars, which had to be delivered to certain points in the offices of the state-owned PDVSA. This is how the theft was carried out: part of it remained in accounts in the names of front companies, and the other arrived in gigantic volumes of cash, which were distributed from the offices of PDVSA, under the complicit and active gaze of the president of the company.

It has been repeated that the amount of what disappeared ranges between 23 and 26 billion dollars. Today, the main thing is this: What does the amount between 23 and 26 billion dollars mean for Venezuelan daily life? Well, the two-year dream of the national budget. No one can ignore at this moment that the budget for 2023 was 11 billion dollars.