Media: Plane sent to Russia with Venezuelan gold returned with a billion dollars for Maduro
The Russian plane, which flew to Caracas and back, returned with a billion dollars for the dictator Nicolas Maduro. Novaya Gazeta reported with a reference to its sources that the gold reserves which the plane flew out of Venezuela were sold.
Novaya Gazeta reported that the “empty” plane, which flew to Caracas on January 29, in fact carried two crew teams. It first landed in Dubai (UAE) and then flew to the Venezuelan capital after landing in Morocco and Cape Verde.
It was reported that the same plane flew to Caracas on January 18-19 and returned on January 21-23.
In Dubai, the plane was met by the armed collectors of the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates. They unloaded the gold and filled the containers with cash.
The newspaper claims that Maduro received a total of about 1.2 billion USD.
It was reported earlier that a passenger plane of the Russian airline Nordwind Airlines, which had previously arrived at Caracas International Airport with no passengers on board, went back to Moscow.