“Venezuela is fighting for the gold of the Venezuelans. Are you going to allow the United Kingdom Government, mired in a deep crisis, to steal the gold of all Venezuelans? That is why the BCV is there, fighting. But, we have to put up a fight here, in the street,” insisted the also Minister of Economy Delcy Rodríguez
Executive Vice President Delcy Rodríguez assured this Friday that the United Kingdom “intends to steal the gold of Venezuelans”, regarding the litigation undertaken for the control of the country’s reserves deposited in the European nation and valued at about 1,600 million euros (about 1,630 million dollars).
“All countries must think that what they have done to Venezuela they can do to them too, become aware, not take their gold to the Bank of England, not put it in custody, because, in the end, they will end up being victims of a historical piracy of that country that intends to steal the gold of the Venezuelan men and women,” said the official during an event with social movements.
On December 20, the British Supreme Court accepted, in part, the appeal filed by the opposition Juan Guaidó on whether he or the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, should control the gold deposited in the Bank of England.
The highest British judicial instance referred the case to the Commercial Division of the High Court to determine who is authorized to manage the gold, a situation that will be decided between July 13 and 18, according to what was indicated by the British judge Sara Cockerill, last Friday, June 17.
The two political rivals (Maduro and Guaidó) have been facing each other since 2019 over access to gold bullion, valued at more than a billion dollars and guarded for years by the Bank of England in its vaults.
The long judicial saga gave the opposition leader an initial victory in July 2020, which was, however, annulled by an appeal court in October of that same year.
Accumulating the resources on both sides, the case reached the British Supreme Court in July 2021, which last December agreed with Guaidó again, but only partially.
The highest British jurisdiction established that, like the government of Boris Johnson, justice recognizes the opponent and not Maduro as president of Venezuela.
Both had appointed rival boards of directors of the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), which gave conflicting orders to the Bank of England on what to do with the gold.
However, the appointment of his board by Guaidó was invalidated by the Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), so the British justice ordered in December to analyze whether to accept this measure, taken by an institution that opponents describe as a “puppet of the regime.” ».
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In this regard, Rodríguez said that in the next few days the “fate” of the precious metal will be resolved, a dispute that, he assured, the Central Bank of Venezuela is giving, and for which he requested support and “the fight, in all instances “, of the citizen. “Venezuela is fighting for the gold of the Venezuelans. Are you going to allow the United Kingdom Government, mired in a deep crisis, to steal the gold of all Venezuelans? That is why the BCV is there, fighting. But, we have to fight here, in the street », he insisted.
The vice president recalled that the ingots were delivered as a “deposit” to the Bank of England, and that the BCV stated that only Venezuela can dispose of them.
“It is an imperial country, an imperial country that has stolen gold that the BCV deposited as a client,” he asserted.
In addition, Rodríguez reported on the installation of the “anti-blockade movement” that will be activated inside and outside Venezuelan territory to “continue to wage the permanent battle” for the country’s resources and assets.
victory in court
For its part, the Special Attorney of Venezuela appointed by the National Assembly elected in 2015described as “one more victory” the measure of the Supreme Court of England on July 7, in which it orders the board of directors of the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) adept to the Nicolás Maduro regime “to reinstate the Central Bank, whose authorities have named Juan Guaidó, the amount of 400,000 pounds sterling (approximately 480,000 dollars) that were paid to Maduro’s lawyers in December 2020 “, before the litigation for the control of Venezuela’s gold reserves deposited in the United Kingdom.
Additionally, the court ordered to cancel the costs (fees and expenses of the process) for the incidents and actions of second instance and those executed before the Supreme Court of Justice itself, “whose amount will be estimated in the coming days, and which could exceed one million of dollars”.
“Once again the Government of Guaidó scores a victory in foreign courts against the dictatorship, by recognizing its legitimacy and preserving important assets of the people of Venezuela (…) In accordance with the Statute that governs the transition to democracy, these assets cannot be used nor dispose until the usurpation ceases and democracy is restored.
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