The Venezuelan Prosecutor's Office issues an arrest warrant against Juan Guaidó

The prosecutor reports the activation of an Interpol red alert against the opposition leader

Guaidó considers that "the cowardly accusations of the Maduro dictatorship" have the objective of persecuting the opposition

This Thursday, the Venezuelan Prosecutor's Office issued an arrest warrant against the opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who is in the United States, whom he accuses of several crimes, including treason, usurpation of functions and money laundering.

The attorney general, Tarek William Saab, has explained that the person under investigation used resources from the state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) "to finance himself, pay his legal expenses" and "forced" the company to "accept his refinancing terms." as a US court would have revealed.

"It is revealed that Juan Guaidó's gang, and he personally, used the figure of a fictitious government ex professedly, in a premeditated manner, causing losses to the Venezuelan State of approximately 20,000 million dollars," the prosecutor said. .

Saab has indicated that they have opened a new investigation against Guaidó, have requested an arrest warrant against him and have requested a red alert from Interpol. "We hope for international collaboration so that this subject responds to justice (...) to determine all the properties that could have been acquired by the members of the interim Government with the money stolen from the nation," he added.

"Those who at some point believed in this guy and went out to march, see that he turned out to be a vulgar gang of the worst caliber, robbing and kidnapping," he declared at a press conference, in which he pointed out that it was "a organized gang" that sought to profit through front men or family members.

Thus, he has detailed that he is also accused of terrorism and arms trafficking, among other crimes that are added to other investigations related to irregularities in the oil company Monómeros, a subsidiary in Colombia of PDVSA. "They represent a political sector that uses language of brutal extremism regardless of calling for civil wars, regardless of military uprisings," he added.

After the announcement, the former president of the Venezuelan National Assembly has responded "to the cowardly accusations of the Maduro dictatorship", considering that it is a "machine for promoting lies" to "wash its propaganda and physically and morally persecute the Venezuelan opposition", as published on his profile on the social network X, formerly Twitter.

In this sense, he has stressed that it is a "constant repetition of the lie by associated profiles" and has denounced that "the regime attacks again, with one of its favorite weapons, the kidnapping of justice."

At the beginning of April, Guaidó warned that the Government of Nicolás Maduro had threatened to issue an arrest warrant against him, "evidently based on false accusations," and criticized the Bolivarian authorities for "reviving the lies."

"They will continue to invent fallacies about me. They know very well that the regime has it against me because we challenged them from day one, because we have challenged them and we will continue to do so, and because I am going to move forward," he said then.

Guaidó proclaimed himself "interim president" of Venezuela in 2019, by not recognizing Maduro's second term, a position in which he was recognized for a time by many countries, including Spain.