Switzerland to freeze Venezuelan accounts for alleged irregularities in Maduro regime

February 20, 2019

The Venezuelan opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, confirmed that he was collaborating with the Swiss government to block the Chavists 'access to the citizens' money and declared that they had attempted to transfer some of this money to accounts elsewhere.

In early February, Nicolás Maduro's opposition He ended a $ 1.2 billion transfer of state accounts managed by President Chavez.

The accounts were in Portugal, Uruguay, while the government is finding it increasingly difficult to migrate its funds into the international financial system because of sanctions imposed by the United States.

The acting president, Juan Guaidó, announced to the Mexican channel Televisa, that the President of Switzerland has informed him of alleged irregularities of funds of the Maduro regime in accounts of this country and He said that he would do everything possible to freeze them, according to the information of Reuters.

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"He informed us that there was an irregular treatment of the accounts of the Republic (…) where they tried to make irregular movements, and we plan to freeze all these badets of the Republic"said Guaidó.

"We are doing everything possible to protect these badets again," he said after meeting with the Swiss president. Ueli Maurer. The Leader of the Opposition stated that it was not clear who was responsible for the movements on the bank accounts.