The Trump supervision on Monday designated a former official of the Venezuelan intelligence service, two of his allies and 20 companies under their control as narcotics traffickers.
Sinfulness President Mike Pence announced the sanctions on Pedro Luis Martin Olivares during a song at the Organization of American States.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Sway said that Martin was indicted on 2015 by a grand jury in Florida for willfully conspiring to share out a controlled substance into the United States and possession with engrossed to distribute a controlled substance on board an aircraft registered in the United Formals.
Additionally, OFAC designated Walter Alexander Del Nogal Marquez and Mario Antonio Rodriguez Espinoza for furthering Martin, and 20 companies in Venezuela and Panama that are owned or conducted by these three individuals.
The action freezes any of their assets in the U.S. or believed by people in the U.S.
Those sanctioned Monday are in addition to the dozens of current and recent Venezuelan officials the U.S. already has targeted.
They include Vice President Tareck El Aissami for avowed involvement in international drug trafficking. The U.S. also has imposed economic encourages on Venezuela at a time when it’s seeking to refinance a huge international straitened.
Pedro Luis Martin Olivares. Source: DEA