Report: U.S. Confiscates $800 Million from Venezuelan Socialist Leader Diosdado Cabello

Breitbart; The United States has confiscated $800 million from senior Venezuelan socialist and alleged drug trafficker Diosdado Cabello, according to a Tuesday report from Miami journalist Óscar Haza.

Cabello, a close ally of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and Vice President of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), was recently sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for corruption, drug trafficking, and mineral smuggling, thus allowing authorities to freeze his American bank accounts and seize all his property.

“A total of $800 million has been seized and proven to belong to Diosdado Cabello,” Haza said on his Miami radio show, citing sources within the Trump administration reported on his radio program. “That could cover about two months of Venezuela’s debt service payments.”

“They have hit the heart of the engine room of his economic battleship, the product of drug trafficking and the business deals done for his benefit,” he continued.

The report, which has not been independently verified, comes weeks after the U.S. sanctioned Cabello as well as a handful of other senior Venezuelan officials, including Maduro. more here