The lawyer Alejandro Terán Martínez recorded a communication with the Asset Control Office (Ofac) of the United States Department of the Treasury in which he reminded him of the risks he runs when recognizing the National Assembly (AN) for the 2015-2020 period because those deputies ceased their duties.
Terán Martínez says in the letter that “it is totally illegal for US legislation to give effect to an extinct foreign legislative institution like the Venezuelan one of 2015, it is not in force.”
Terán Martínez’s reminder to Ofac derives from license number 42 issued by that US institution on May 1, which allows the AN in 2015 to carry out any negotiation of Venezuelan debts and assets.
As a consequence of this license, the previous AN has in its hands control of Citgo, a Venezuelan company established in the United States, as reported by the authorities of that nation at the time.
“The federal administration that you direct could be within the parameters of fraud both for the possible debtors of the Citgo Corporation oil company, as well as for the true holders of the Venezuelan debts abroad whose trials are still in the US federal courts” Terán Martínez tells him in the letter sent to Andrea M Gacki, executive director of OFAC.
“This communication has the objective of alerting that the decision number 42 of the Ofac Assets Office could be outside the legal context of the laws of the United States and in clear fraud for the taxpayers of that country, since it would violate federal laws” .
The conspiracy
Ofac’s decision was also rejected by President Nicolás Maduro, who described the fact as a conspiracy.
Precisely the Government began on March 17 the Anti-Corruption Operation that so far adds 62 detainees from Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), among other companies where they detected acts of corruption derived from the sale of crude oil without the foreign currency entering for that concept. as explained by the Attorney General.
Deputies close to President Nicolás Maduro have said unofficially that the Anti-Corruption Operation is a mechanism used by the Head of State to neutralize “a great conspiracy.”
“We are going to defeat this conspiracy, we are going to defeat this plot, we are going to triumph again,” Maduro said during a rally in Plaza O’Leary on the occasion of Labor Day on May 1.
Maduro said that it is a robbery of Citgo, a company valued at more than 8 billion dollars, according to his calculations. In this sense, the Head of State indicated that Citgo has more than 10,000 gasoline pumps in the US, which generates annual profits of more than one billion dollars. They have accumulated these currencies for four years “without delivering them to the country, as a result of the kidnapping that Donald Trump subjected him on May 1,” Maduro said.
Here the full text:
May 8th 2023
ANDREA M. GACKI
DIRECTOR OF THE OFAC ASSET CONTROL OFFICE
FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA
PRESENT. –
The undersigned, Alejandro Terán Martínez, a Venezuelan holder of the identity card V-892145, before his competent authority, this occurred for the purpose of exposing a very delicate situation that could constitute, within North American legislation, a Federal crime of consequences that have not yet been determined. –
On December 6, 2015, the legislative body of the national assembly was elected within the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela via popular election, said assembly was sworn in on January 6, 2016.
According to the Venezuelan constitution, the validity of said legislative body is 5 years, that is, in 2021 it ended its functions giving entry to a new legislative body elected by the same electoral mechanisms. –
It is totally illegal for North American legislation to give effect to an extinct foreign legislative institution like the Venezuelan one of 2015, it is not in force.-
This statement derives from license number 42 dated May 1, 2023, which allows any negotiation of Venezuelan debts, assets including what the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has 50% interest, the aforementioned and extinct national assembly elected on 2015.-
It would be totally inappropriate for said institution to expire by popular mandate if it had some kind of decision within the current disposition of the assets of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, debts, debtors, and bank accounts. –
The federal administration that you direct could be within the parameters of fraud both for the possible debtors of the CITGO COPORATIONS oil company as well as for the true holders of the Venezuelan debt abroad whose trials are still in the North American federal courts. –
This communication has the objective is a warning that the decision number 42 of the OFAC asset office could be outside the legal context of the Laws of the United States and in clear fraud for the taxpayers of this country since it would violate federal laws by virtue of which the entity to which it is attributed.
The condition of the Venezuelan national assembly has fulfilled its legal mandate of 5 years; therefore we ask this office to reconsider the decision dated May 1 2023 since the assembly authorized by this institution is completely extinct and without legal validity. –
Without another particular at your service. –
Atte
ALEJANDRO TERAN MARTINEZ
