The Clarín media outlet explained that hackers stole the equivalent of 90,000 dollars in bolivars in almost ten withdrawals from the account of the Argentine embassy in Caracas, registered in the Banco de Venezuela. According to informants cited by the media outlet, a formal investigation has been opened on this delicate matter by the Argentine authorities.
The Banco de Venezuela account where Argentina deposited the money with which the salaries of the diplomats accredited in Caracas were paid was hacked, the media reported. Clarion.
The portal stressed that so far there is no evidence or official statements from the Venezuelan government. According to the media, Argentina speculates that the same state apparatus had access to the account. However, it did not specify where these suspicions came from.
Clarion The newspaper explained that the hackers stole the equivalent of 90,000 dollars in bolivars in almost ten withdrawals from the account. According to informants cited by the media, a formal investigation has been opened into the matter by the Argentine authorities.
With this bank account, the Argentine government continued to pay the expenses of the staff and the maintenance of the Embassy in Caracas and the residence, where six collaborators of María Corina Machado have been granted asylum since last March.
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Since August 1, after the Maduro government expelled Argentina’s chargé d’affaires, Andrés Mangiarotti, and the entire Argentine diplomatic corps from Caracas, the Brazilian government took charge of Argentine interests in that country and, before leaving, Mangiarotti raised the green and yellow flag at the national headquarters as a clear sign that he was protected by another country. It was a request that Argentina had to make in the midst of Milei’s tensions with Lula da Silva.
However, since then, things have only gotten worse, when Milei’s government has rejected Maduro’s victory, according to the CNE.
Brazil is not in the best of situations with its former ally either. Last Friday, after having taken more contemplative positions, Lula da Silva described Maduro’s government as a “very unpleasant” administration with an “authoritarian bias” and insisted that the “records” of the votes be presented to recognize the winner of the elections.
It is not known at this time how the expenses of the cook and the driver, who are Venezuelans and who were responsible for feeding and maintaining the Argentine residence in Cacaras, will be paid. This matter continues to be monitored by the Undersecretary of American Affairs, Mariano Vergara, who is in contact – already in Buenos Aires – with Magiarotti.
At the time, through Vice-Chancellor Leopoldo Sahores, Argentina asked Venezuela for safe conduct for the six Venezuelan dissidents who had taken refuge in the Argentine residence.
All of them were denied. And last week, Lula’s international adviser, Celso Amorim, told the Senate that Lula even offered a special plane to get them out of Caracas without them being arrested.
