Switzerland will freeze Venezuelan accounts for irregularities in the Maduro regime

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó said on Wednesday that the Swiss president had informed him of irregular management of Venezuelan government funds in accounts in that country and had said that they would attempt to freeze them.

Guaidó, whom many countries recognize as Venezuela's interim president, said attempts have been made to transfer some of these accounts to another site.

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

"We are doing everything possible to protect these badets again," he said, noting that the conversation with Swiss President Ueli Maurer, which he did not name by name, took place on Wednesday .

Guaidó did not specify who had detected the movements in the accounts nor given more details.

In early February, the opposition in Venezuela said that it had put an end to a $ 1.2 billion transfer of Portuguese state accounts in Portugal to Uruguay, while that the government was finding it increasingly difficult to transfer funds to the international financial system because of the sanctions imposed. for the United States.

(With information from Reuters)