The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, accused the United Kingdom on Wednesday of stealing in a "shameless and outrageous" manner the Venezuelan gold deposited in London, where a court announced last week that I would keep holding the precious metal of Venezuela's reserves.
In a meeting with entrepreneurs at the Teresa Carreño facilities in Caracas, the head of state stated that for Venezuela this is an operation of "kidnapping and theft" of the 31 tons of , valued at approximately 1.600 million euros.
"Venezuela must know that this is an act of piracy and theft, and the entire world must know that there is no legal security in London or in the Bank of England, that at any time the countries of the world can have their international reserves, their gold reserves, stolen," he denounced.
He said that the gold belongs to the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) and announced that the State will continue "fighting" without neglecting the efforts of national economic growth.
He stressed that Venezuela will recover the gold, the plane seized in Argentina, the bank accounts abroad and Citgo, the subsidiary of the state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) in the United States.
"But while we fight, we will not sit back and do nothing, we will not stop at complaining, at lamenting. We will move from protest to proposal, from proposal to work, and from work to growth," he added.
Last week, the British justice denied the Venezuelan State's request for access to the Republic's gold reserves that have been held in the Bank of England since 2019.
The ruling of Judge Sara Cockerill of the High Court of London determined that she does not consider as valid the resolutions of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) of Venezuela that declared the appointment of the directive null and void of the BCV appointed by the former opposition deputy Juan Guaidó, alleging that in the United Kingdom there is no legal basis to do so.
They try to steal a plane in Argentina
The president also denounced that they seek to rob Venezuela of the emtrasur plane held at the Ezeiza airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina, since June 6.
"Now they intend to steal a plane owned by Venezuela in Argentina, by order of an imperial court in the State of Florida, in the United States. A gigantic, modern, cargo plane," he added.
For this reason, he stated that Venezuela "lifts its protest" and asks the Argentine people for "full support to recover this plane," which is intended "to be stolen and hijacked after two months."
"Just as they intend to steal Citgo, they intend to steal the plane that belongs to Venezuela (…) a plane that carries humanitarian aid to the countries of the Caribbean, Africa, with which we bring medicines from China, Russia, India, which fulfills a humanitarian function," he said.
The Boeing 747-300 was arrested on June 6 with 19 crew members (14 Venezuelans and five Iranians), despite the fact that the plane and the cargo were inspected and subjected to searches without finding anything of illegal origin, explosives, drugs, nor was any accusation made against the crew.
On August 2, an Argentine judge authorized departure from the country of 12 of the 19 crew members, but the plane is still held in Ezeiza. Four Iranians and three Venezuelans remain to be released.
And the government of Argentina what? Do the kids not have autonomy in their decisions? Until when Fernandez will continue guabineando? So much so that he talks about union for what?