Simon Wiesenthal Centre – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com Mon, 17 Feb 2020 16:30:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://onvenezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-12.31.03-PM-1-32x32.png Simon Wiesenthal Centre – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com 32 32 Aircraft carrying one ton of Venezuelan gold forced to land on Caribbean island https://onvenezuela.com/aircraft-carrying-one-ton-of-venezuelan-gold-forced-to-land-on-caribbean-island/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=aircraft-carrying-one-ton-of-venezuelan-gold-forced-to-land-on-caribbean-island Tue, 18 Feb 2020 05:22:00 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=1406

The Centre’s Director for International Relations, Dr. Shimon Samuels, described “a pursuit that led to a mix of ‘Congo conflict gold’ with Venezuelan shipments arriving on Russian aircraft to Entebbe, Uganda”… “There it was melted into new ingots by a Belgian company. Once the DNA origin was wiped out, the newly-minted ingots were sent on for sale in the Gulf, Turkey and, allegedly, Iran.” Full text -> Arutz Sheva

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