Venezuela opens administrative proceedings against Guaidó and one of its commissioners

The Comptroller General of Venezuela informed on Wednesday that it will open an administrative proceeding against Javier Troconis, who was appointed by Deputy Juan Guaidó as ' Presidential Commissioner for Asset Management ' Venezuelan abroad.

Troconis, who was also included by the National Assembly (AN) in contempt as part of the board of directors of Citgo Holding Inc, last February, was signaled by the comptroller general, Elvis Amoroso, to be part of the embezzlement sent by the envoys from Guaidó to the company owned by the Venezuelan state company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).

Amoroso recalled that Citgo has a value of 34,000 million dollars, and said it was "delivered" to the Canadian miner Crystallex for 1,400 million dollars, by way of an old litigation dating from 2008.

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Corruption and money laundering

The comptroller informed that Troconis is the owner and member of the company T&C Services CA , which made contracts with PDVSA for almost 188 million dollars during the management of the former Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Rafael Ramírez, who is investigated by the Venezuelan Justice for his alleged link with a network of corruption and money laundering within the state oil company.

According to the Comptroller, " Troconis could be prevented from receiving 127 million dollars more " because the commissioner of Guaidó intended to collect that amount and then transfer it to the deputy to his accounts abroad.

He recalled that, although the opposition deputy during the AN session last Tuesday said that he had alerted Parliament about the alleged corruption of Ramírez, it was PDVSA's former president who hired Troconis.

"It is the same modus operandi that Rafael Ramírez used to appropriate PDVSA," said Amoroso, who showed on a sheet all the services that Troconis had provided during the management of the fugitive former Minister of Energy, according to the data collected by the National Register of Contractors (RNC).

Investigations open

The comptroller invited the Venezuelan deputies and the European Union to verify the evidence held by the governing body.

Similarly, he asked the Superintendency of Banks to ban all financial transactions with Guaidó and Troconis, both in Venezuela and abroad .

He also called on the Prosecutor's Office, the Judiciary and the Ministry of Interior and Justice to initiate the relevant investigations and prevent them from carrying out transactions with their assets.

Guaidó already has seven investigations open for his alleged relations with:

• An illegal negotiation of Esequibo, an area in territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana.
• An action in "detriment of the Venezuelan homeland", after its self-proclamation.
• Electric sabotage, occurred between March and April of this year.
• The failed coup attempt on April 30.
• The appropriation of the assets of the South American country abroad.
• The diversion of funds from "humanitarian aid".
• The Colombian narco-paramilitary group 'Los Rastrojos'.