“We have found a plot aimed at boycotting the Consultative Referendum for the Essequibo, financed by ExxonMobil, a financing that was monetized through crypto assets by Damián Merlo, a US citizen, former telecommunications businessman and former foreign policy advisor linked to Donald Trump and advisor to Nayib Bukele,” denounced the attorney general of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab.
The statements were made known by Saab during a press conference regarding the carrying out of a series of investigations that were open into the international conspiracy against Venezuela, where Merlo had Savoi Jandon Wright as a contact, who is already detained and used the USDT cryptocurrency; and large sums of cash to evade financial controls and mask the origin and destination of the funds used to conspire:
“This second American citizen maintained economic relations with Claudia Macero, Pedro Urruchurto and Roberto Abdul, leaders of the Súmate organization and who together with Henri Alviárez directed destabilizing and conspiratorial actions, previously sponsored by a group of subjects who are abroad, such as Yon Goicochea, Juan Guaidó, Julio Borges, Andrés Izarra, David Smolanksi, Lester Toledo, Carlos Vechio, Leopoldo López and Rafael Ramírez so that Guyana, the ExxonMobil company and the United States could strip Venezuela of a territory that historically and legally belongs to Venezuela”, highlighted the Attorney General.
In that sense, arrest warrants were requested against Yon Goicochea, Juan Guaidó, Julio Borges, Andrés Izarra, David Smolanski, Carlos Vecchio, Lester Toledo, Savoi Jandon Wright, Leopoldo López, Rafael Ramírez, Roberto Abdul, Henry Alviárez, Claudia Macero and Pedro Urruchurtu for “the crimes of treason, conspiracy, money laundering and association to commit a crime.”
Likewise, he recalled that the Public Ministry (MP) as the head of the criminal action will not let these actions go unpunished, so “from now on a second phase of investigation will begin and develop.”
