The Venezuelan government announced that it will take “all necessary measures” to denounce the confiscation by the United States of a plane owned by the Venezuelan State and demand its immediate return.
The Government of the Venezuelan Nicolás Maduro rejected Friday lto Confiscation by the United States of an aircraft Property of the state sanction Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) and said that “it will take all actions” to denounce the “robbery” and demand its immediate return.
In addition, he accused the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, having given the order to confiscate the plane.
“His hatred towards Venezuela now takes him to the crime open, illegally confiscating a PDVSA plane with the complicity of the Cipayo government of the Dominican Republic,” says a statement from the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry in which he described the measure as a “shameless robbery.”
“This attack against Venezuela shows that Rubio is nothing more than a criminal disguised as a politician, using his position to loot and strip our country of his assets. His hatred makes him an international criminal, capable of violating any rule in order to damage our homeland, ”continues the text.
Rubio, who culminated on Thursday a tour of several countries in the region, supervised the seizure of the Dassault Falcon 200 plane retained in the Dominican Republic since April last year, and has been used by Maduro and senior officials of his government.
According to the US Department of Justice, the seizure occurred with “Base in violations of the export and sanctions control laws” of that country.
The measure occurred almost a week after Richard Grenelll, special envoy from President Donald Trump, met with Maduro in Caracas to talk about the repatriation of Venezuelans in an irregular situation in the United States.
Grenell He returned to his country with six Americans They were arrested in Venezuela.
In September 2024, USA confiscated another plane that he was also in the Dominican Republic, and that according to the Department of Justice “it was illegally bought for 13 million dollars through a ghost company and saved from smuggling from the United States to be used by Nicolás Maduro and his relatives.”