Domain Forfeiture Law: Investigation of Misuse of Citgo Funds in Venezuela

2024-01-11 23:28:40

If they are found guilty, the Domain Forfeiture Law will be applied to them.

Courtesy National Assembly | Rodríguez ordered the formation of a commission

The president of the National Assembly (AN), Jorge Rodríguez, ordered the formation of a commission to investigate opponents who personally used Citgo money and apply the Asset Forfeiture law.

In this Thursday’s session, he proposed Pedro Infante, first vice president of parliament, to head the group that will be in charge of the investigations and ordered him to determine the responsibilities of those who are in the cases within a period of no more than one week. Opposition political parties approved the theft of 70 million dollars from Citgo.

“In this country there is an Organic Code of Criminal Procedure, there is a Law of Domain Forfeiture, this new legal instrument serves so that the body of the Public Power governing the administration of justice, which is the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic, goes once morest the assets Of those who generated this damage once morest the nation, they will have something and it will be useful for something. Of course, it will never be enough to pay for what was stolen,” he pointed out.

“If they approved they are accomplices and if with accomplices, the Domain Forfeiture law expressly states that they can go once morest the accomplices of crimes once morest public money,” he mentioned in relation to the “expansion” of the activity of the 2015 National Assembly and of seize Citgo’s money.

He questioned whether political parties participate in what he described as the “theft” of Venezuela’s resources and at the same time intend to participate in national electoral processes.

Rodríguez denounced that these groups will try to access the resources of the Republic through non-governmental organizations to finance their participation in the upcoming national elections. parliamentary, regional and local.

He pointed out that it is essential to attend to the regularization of NGOs from Parliament, because “it is not possible for them to handle money in foreign currency, cash and cryptocurrencies, but no one knows anything regarding these organizations. There are NGOs that exist, where Juan Guaidó used the money for supposed medical aid that was never seen.”

It should be noted that Deputy Diosdado Cabello recalled that on January 12, the open, democratic, participatory public consultation of the Law on Control, Financing and Performance of NGOs in Venezuela begins, approved by the Venezuelan parliament in the first discussion, on the 23rd. January 2023.

One by one must be investigated

The president of the National Assembly ordered during the session that the commission consequently “investigate one by one those citizens who the first crime they are committing is usurping a public office, because no one elected Mrs. Dinorah Figuera” .

He considers that the soldier Figuera is in a political party, which must have authorized it and therefore, the political party would be responsible for the theft as well.

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