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The American newspaper carried out an investigation in which it questioned the efforts of Juan Guaidó’s commissioner for Asset Management. What did you find?
A new case of corruption surrounds Juan Guaidó, recognized as president of Venezuela by more than 60 countries. This was revealed by an investigation by the Washington Post that found how the presidential commissioner for Asset Management of the interim government would be at the forefront of a corruption plot.
According to the newspaper, these acts of corruption in the Guaidó government are related to the irregular handling of the country’s assets abroad and that were recovered in alliance with the government of Donald Trump.
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Two businessmen, according to Send, Jorge Reyes and Pedro Antar, were the ones who reported on the corruption plot for more than US40,000 million and that would involve Fernando Blasi and Javier Troconis, appointed by Juan Guaidó as presidential commissioner for Asset Management and Recovery.
Blasi and Troconis have been singled out by Venezuela’s prosecutor, Tarek William Saab, as part of a network that collects bribes to “steal Venezuelan assets in the Caribbean.”
According to the Office of the Prosecutor, who made the accusations on September 17, the Public Ministry opened an investigation against four officials named by Guaidó for attempting to collect bribes to sign a contract that would grant powers to a consortium of companies based in Miami, with the purpose of “stealing assets of the country abroad.”
The investigation goes against Fernando Javier Blasi-Blanchard, Magin Eduardo Blasi-Blanchard, Javier Troconis, José Ignacio Hernández and Luis Pacheco, accused of trying to seize the assets of Venezuela in the Caribbean in complicity with Juan Guaidó.
Saab then indicated that they are involved in this network aimed at stealing the country’s assets abroad, the trading company Caribbean Recovery Assets (CRA), owned by Lock In Capital and Global Risk Management, represented by Jorge Reyes and Pedro Antar.
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“For these people and companies the commission of treason against the fatherland, money laundering, usurpation of functions and association to commit a crime, after having designated the 67th National Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the facts, ”said the Prosecutor of Nicolás Maduro.
The American media spoke with businessmen Jorge Reyes and Pedro Antar.
The investigation of Send, which included more than 20 interviews and a review of documents, including potential contracts, revealed multiple proposed deals involving Troconis that would have required what some members of the opposition have characterized as large and unusual payments, the newspaper revealed.
The media published this Sunday new reports on hiring, fraudulent and with bribes, illegally signed by Troconis: in addition to the Petrocaribe case there is one on oil debt in Paraguay and an account of the Ministry of Food for 1.7 billion dollars in the United Kingdom.
The Washington Post revelations
The investigation of Washington Post revealed that the opposition needed money to be able to implement its plan abroad to undermine its Chavista base. For that, according to the newspaper, Jorge Reyes and Pedro Antar, two Venezuelan businessmen in Miami, offered a plan to get that money by looking for Venezuelan assets in the Caribbean.
Those assets included shares of companies, cars, houses, and other properties in the name of Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA.
Guaidó, Reyes told The Washington Post, he was the one who contacted the two businessmen, with whom there were several meetings of men close to Guaidó.
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But during a December 2019 meeting in the Miami suburb of Doral, Reyes said he and Antar received a handwritten letter, a photograph of which was delivered to The charge, with a list of what he described as ‘shocking’ lawsuits, “the investigation adds.
Those lawsuits included an upfront payment of $ 750,000 to a Florida company that state records show is co-owned by Magin Blasi, brother of a senior official at the Guaidó-controlled Venezuelan embassy in Washington. That company would also become their partner, the letter stipulated, sharing the 18 percent commission that the men had negotiated with Guaidó officials, the report said.
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The allegations of Reyes and Antar were dismissed last September by the Guaidó government. A preliminary report from a National Assembly commission investigating the case, cited by the Post, found administrative irregularities, but no evidence of corruption.
Carlos Vecchio, Venezuelan ambassador to the United States, asked the US government to carry out its own investigation.
“I don’t put my hands on fire for anyone,” he said.
