In an interview with broadcaster Venevisión, lawmakers blamed Dinorah Figueras for the job, stressing that she was illegally paying salaries to former MPs of 2015 and representatives of the political parties Primero Justicia and Voluntad Popular.
She denounced that she herself claimed she had the constitutional powers to manage the Bolivarian Republic’s resources abroad, referring to the $364 million given to her by the United States government a few days ago.
Rodríguez noted that with this money they pay the former MPs, whom they call health heroes who are not doctors or nurses but “political activists from the Primero Justicia and Voluntad Popular parties”.
“We have the payroll, they get a thousand, two thousand and even three thousand dollars depending on the degree of closeness to the leadership of this sector,” he pointed out.
He indicated that the payment will be made in cryptocurrencies or in cash stolen from the dividends of the Citgo company, owned by the Venezuelan people.
President Nicolás Maduro on May 15 denounced that since the robbery of the company owned by Petróleos de Venezuela, the country has not received more than $900 million a month.
Rodríguez noted that opponents were not satisfied with the “impressive sum” stolen by (Juan) Guaidó, which will go down in the annals of Venezuela’s political history as the greatest collection our history has ever seen.
He added that without any constitutional mechanisms, since this character was not president of anything, he had a budget and was given funds every month.
The President of the National Assembly announced that these former MPs and political activists will be subject to the Loss of Assets Act, which was urgently and unanimously passed by the Legislature on April 27.
This new legal tool will allow the state to quickly recover any assets ill-gotten by “parts of the corrupt” to put them at the service of the Venezuelan people, he said.
The Supreme Court on Thursday approved the order entrusting the civil courts of the Caracas metropolitan judicial district to hear cases under the Organic Law on Forfeiture of Assets, which supplements the protections of foreign assets.
These courts have jurisdiction at first and second instance and at national level to deal with the cases provided for in these regulations.
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