Workers of the National Superintendence of Cryptoactives (Sunacrip) denounced SuchWhich that despite the fact that the restructuring board promised that “they would not fire anyone”, they practically forced them to sign a letter to put their positions to order. They were told “don’t come back after Easter, we’ll call you anything.” They demand that the Government have to pay the piper for a corruption plot of which they had no idea and which was led by officials of the State itself
The self-styled “workers government” of Nicolás Maduro left dozens of workers of the National Superintendence of Cryptoactives (Sunacrip) in limbo, who were told “don’t come back after Easter, we’ll call you anything”. The anti-corruption purge carried out by the State “took away” the job stability of the employees, even when – they affirmed – the majority were unaware of the corruption of the officials who ran the agency.
A former employee of Sunacrip, which was created on April 9, 2018 and which was in charge of supporting the development of the petro as a digital currency, detailed SuchWhich that on Monday, April 3 in the afternoon, from the Human Resources Department they ordered the coordinators and assistants of the entity to make their positions available. That same day, at night, the same instruction was given to the rest of the staff who also had to deliver a letter on April 4 to put their charges in order.
«They said that it was not a resignation, but only the delivery of the position. However, on April 4, after delivering the letter, Human Resources went to the offices to tell the staff to leave and not come back after Easter, that they were calling them anything,” said the source, who prefers to protect their identity for fear of government reprisals.
On March 17, the National Anti-Corruption Police solicitous the Public Ministry (MP) prosecute a group of citizens who exercised functions in public power and who could be involved in serious acts of administrative corruption and embezzlement. The day before, on Thursday the 16th, the Sunacrip workers were evicted from the building by the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (Dgcim), without knowing the reasons.
The Anti-Corruption Police explained in a statement that it initiated before the Prosecutor’s Office a request for judicial prosecution of a series of individuals who “violating the sacred oath of honesty, morality and ethics that they took to assume the assigned responsibilities, could be involved in serious acts of corruption administration and embezzlement.
Erasing even the name of Sunacrip
The workers see the measure as an indirect dismissal, they do not believe that they will receive their salaries in the coming fortnight. They have also not given them details about the petro bonuses they received through the PetroApp and, much less, if at any time they will be paid a settlement.
They complain to the Government for having left them in a labor limbo, even when -they said- they had no idea of the acts of corruption committed by high officials; among which the now ex-superintendent Joselit Ramírez stands out, who was apprehended for illegal acts.
The source recalled that on March 20, three days after the first apprehensions, a restructuring board was installed in Sunacrip, made up of the now superintendent in charge Anabel Pereira Fernández and three main directors: Héctor Andrés Obregón Pérez, Luis Alberto Pérez González and Julio César Mora Sánchez.
From that moment they were in limbo. They did not give information to the workers about their employment status in the institution. “One of the authorities (name not specified) came to the office and just introduced himself. On Thursday, March 30, there was a meeting in which all the directors were present, in which all the staff were ordered to remain calm because they were not going to fire anyone, “said one of the sources consulted.
«Nicolas Maduro President, what is the fault of the Sunacrip employees, please put your hands in, they are requesting the position of everyone, “wrote Yasmin Cadiz (@yasmincadiz) through her account on the social network Twitter. She received no response.
Another user on the same network wrote on April 4: “By the way, they even took away the name of the building where Sunacrip worked and they say that they even asked the workers to resign.”
The reports of both users coincide with the version given by the Sunacrip source to SuchWhich. He explained that on the same Friday, March 17, after a meeting, they began to remove all the logos referring to the petro and the institution itself.
frozen money
The administration of Nicolás Maduro also does not offer information to users who, through the entity’s platform, exchanged their cryptocurrencies, including workers who received bonuses through this channel.
On Twitter there are also similar complaints. “Friend César, I talked about the mega scam that they did to us with the Petro App Application, where we naively sent our money and since the Sunacrip robbery we have our money in jail, without even being able to recharge balance,” wrote the user Yorbelis VM.
For his part, Alexander Farfán called it a fault that Sunacrip had not enabled withdrawals and deposits. “So the one who believed in the petro to protect his money, now because his own people are corrupt, one must pay the piper.”
After the restructuring of this Superintendency, several cryptocurrency exchange houses (exchanges) and digital miners received the instruction to stop their activities temporarily. The first exchange to communicate about its cessation of operations was Cryptobuyer, a Panamanian company with a presence in Venezuela formally registered with Sunacrip to operate with crypto assets.
The lawyer specializing in crypto assets, Ana Ojeda, explained on her Twitter account that Sunacrip ordered both exchange houses and miners registered with the agency to temporarily suspend all their services.
«Venezuelan exchanges close operations by orders of Sunacrip. Similarly, digital miners from all over the country registered with the agency have also been turned off. Supposedly temporary measures, while the institution is restructured, “he explained.
According to the Sunacrip website, the other exchanges with permission to operate legally in the country —besides Cryptobuyer and CoincoinX— are CryptoEx, AFX, Antwerp Coin, and Crixto. In addition, they have permission but seven others are not operational: Veinte, Cryptia, Bancar, Criptolago, Criptoven Trade, Valeven and Crypto Exchange.
“It is an uncertainty because these people (the Government) are practically eliminating the institution and are not giving an answer about the money,” the source commented. At the same time, they confirmed that part of their bonus payments were frozen in the Petroapp.
Irregularities in cryptocurrency exchanges are nothing new. According to the informant, they began in December, just after the Superintendency of Banks (Sudeban) and Sunacrip began to supervise “in real time” banking operations that are related to bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrencies.
Through a statement, the entity explained that it would coordinate with Sunacrip and the National Financial Intelligence Unit (UNIF) the “supervision mechanisms” of transactions involving crypto assets. They alleged that the regulatory measure was derived from alleged “irregular practices” in the country’s economy, which “attack” the Venezuelan bolivar and the “stability” of the exchange market. At that time they did not identify what those practices were.
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