The opposition of Uruguay has extended the allegation of money laundering alleged between the government of Tabaré Vázquez and the Venezuelan regime

Complaints increase money laundering between the Government of Uruguay and the Venezuelan regime. Two members of the Uruguayan opposition presented new evidence to the court on Monday to request an investigation into these alleged links.

The deputy Rodrigo Goñi (National Party) and former member of the ruling coalition Frente Amplio (FA) Gonzalo Mujica They went to the Montevideo Organized Crime Tribunal to add new evidence to their May 2017 complaint. on the affairs of the Uruguayan government with Venezuela.

In this case, reference is made to alleged increases in deposits in the Uruguayan subsidiary of the Bank for Economic and Social Development (Bands), Venezuelan State Bank created in 2001 and also present in Nicaragua, Ecuador, Bolivia and China, among others. In this regard, Goñi told reporters that according to the records of the Central Bank, over the past year, the amount of these deposits has doubled.

And, according to Goñi, "there are elements that warrant an investigation into the origin of the more than 50 million dollars entered in Uruguay thanks to deposits of Venezuelan non-residents ".

For his part, Mujica said that these funds coming from "people without a doubt related to the government of Nicolás Maduro" and that it is necessary to investigate "if all was not part of a large money laundering operation" of the Venezuelan regime.

The acting president of Venezuela and head of the legislative power, by an opposition majority, Juan Guaidó, denounced two weeks ago that the Maduro diet was "trying to switch from Bands to Money (…) to Uruguay". He said they would be between $ 1,000 and $ 1,200 million.

However, the Uruguayan government has relativized the complaint and the president of the FA, Javier Miranda, "absolutely improbable" that these currencies exceed local financial controls.

The Uruguayan opposition claims to investigate denunciations of the trade relations of the son of the Uruguayan president, Tabaré Vázquez, with the Venezuelan government. He also denounced the fact that companies related to the closure by former President José Mujica (2010-2015) had started irregular relations with the Maduro administration.

Guaidó is recognized by more than 50 countries as acting president, but the Uruguayan government is one of the few Latin Americans not to have done so and calls for a dialogue for a "democratic solution" to crisis. Maduro is under pressure from a large part of the international community at the head of the United States, which considers that his second term, begun in January, is illegitimate.