Jorge Reyes and Pedro Antar said they had identified up to $40 billion in Venezuelan government assets across the Caribbean. Guaidó, Reyes told The Washington Post, called the men himself in April 2019 to express interest. But inside the Venezuelan opposition, consternation is building over the interim government’s decision to keep Troconis in his job. In the second draft of the contract, Vidal would have received 20 percent of the settlement, or more than $26 million. The National Assembly committee also investigated a contract Troconis signed with a South Florida law firm to recover an account in Britain containing nearly $1.7 billion from the Venezuelan Food Ministry.

Source: Washington Post January 02, 2021 10:52 UTC