Switzerland has frozen assets held in the country by Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro and associates, the Swiss government said on Monday, following his arrest by U.S. forces in Caracas and transfer to the United States.
A spokesperson for the Swiss Foreign Ministry said the order affects 37 people. The spokesperson said the ministry could not provide any details on the value of the assets in question.
Switzerland being complicit in the dealings of fascist states, as always.
The assets are frozen in anticipation of a future legitimate Venezuelan request for return of Maduros corruption money.
This is done for Venezuela.
Exactly, it says:
" The asset freeze does not affect members of the current Venezuelan government, and Switzerland said it will seek to return any funds found to be illicitly acquired to benefit the Venezuelan people."
“The asset freeze was a precautionary measure and applied to Maduro and his associates as foreign politically exposed persons, the government said.”
The account owners were arrested and are under duress, and nobody knows yet who the legal new head of state is. So anybody with some access (including Maduro pressured by US) could illegally seize it. That’s why they froze the accounts for now.
Every time Switzerland does anything that makes world news the comments are full of stupid, uninformed hate. I think it’s 90% jealeousy of its wealth and success and 10% actual resentment because of shameful things done in WW2. I’d like to see them survive being surrounded by huge fascist militaries for 5 years while being a tiny country and manage as little collaboration as there was.
Yeah - the question really is why that money was allowed to be in Switzerland all those years.
Because Maduro wasn’t sanctioned by a body that Switzerland recognizes as binding.
However now that he’s fallen, they are freezing his money to give it back to the country when it asks for it.
Did they freeze Trump assets yet?
By doing it after Maduro’s kidnapping—rather than before, independently of US foreign policy—Switzerland is tacitly accepting the right of the U.S. to interfere in Venezuelan politics, a matter in which no U.S. court has jurisdiction. I don’t like Maduro any more than the next dictator, but the U.S. shouldn’t have illegally kidnapped him and murdered dozens of Cubans and Venezuelans in the process, and countries like the UK and Switzerland shouldn’t be normalizing this violation of international law by any means.