During the Plenary this Wednesday, the president of the National Assembly (AN), deputy Jorge Rodríguez (PSUV/Capital District), revealed a communication on July 20 from Carlos Jordá, addressed to the workers of Citgo Petroleum Corporation, informing that in three months they will sell the Venezuelan oil company to Delek Holdings, Inc., an Israeli-American refining and marketing company.
The parliamentarian explained that Jordá, who has accumulated a net worth of two million dollars, has Delek shares for 1,152,000 dollars: “At the time when he already knew the court was going to agree with Cristallex about Citgo, he sent the letter to the workers so that the shares of the Israeli company would rise in value,” he said.
He added that the communication indicates that the sale process will begin on October 23, and a Citgo auction will take place on June 10, 2024, after which the court in the case will authorize the sale.
Given these actions, Rodríguez instructed the Special Commission that will Identify the Scope and Responsibilities of the Confessions of Donald Trump against Venezuela, chaired by the first vice president of the AN, deputy Pedro Infante (PSUV / Dtto. Capital), to incorporate this case to the investigations it is conducting.
It is worth remembering that Crystallex, a Canadian mining company, obtained a favorable ruling in a US court on the liquidation of Citgo shares to satisfy an alleged debt of Venezuela for 1,400 million dollars.
The deputy invoked the Asset Forfeiture Law, and its application, to punish the damage caused by Jordá to the properties and assets that belong to the Venezuelans. He said that, in this process, this mercenary hired by Guaidó plans to steal more than 15 billion dollars.
He recalled that Jordá was appointed president of Citgo by Juan Guaidó, and added that, until 2019, this individual was the CEO of the Delek US company, “And the beneficiary of this sale of Citgo, which is not real, is the Israeli company,” explained Rodríguez.
He denounced that the actions of Jordá, to whom he described as a thief, appointed by the greatest criminal that the republican history of Venezuela has known, such as Juan Guaido, dared to steal the country’s assets abroad.
He explained that the clear intentions in this plot are to steal the gold deposited by the BCV in the Bank of England, the cash deposited in the banks of the United States, with the complicity of the North American empire, with the complicity of Donald Trump, just as they did with Iraq and Libya, in order to appropriate what does not belong to them.
He exemplified that it is as if some deputy from this AN, from the opposition or from the revolution, would appoint the president of Repsol, Exxon Mobil, Shell. It would be, he explained, a delusional act that can only be sustained by the aggressive action of those who govern the United States.
He insisted that Venezuela has legal instruments to punish criminals, such as the Penal Code. He stressed that the Asset Forfeiture Law must be forcefully applied, beyond compensation for damages: “To establish our position that laws are made to be applied,” he concluded.
