Venezuela Tilda of «shameless robbery» the confiscation of an airplane by the USA.

The administration of Nicolás Maduro described this Friday as «shameless robbery» North American nation.

«Venezuela denounces before the world the shameless robbery of an aircraft owned by the Venezuelan nation, executed by order of the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio,» said the Foreign Ministry in a statement published on Telegram.

He argued that this «attack» against Venezuela shows that Rubio «is nothing more than a criminal disguised as a politician, using his position to loot and strip» the country of «his assets.»

«His hatred makes him an international criminal, capable of violating any rule in order to damage our homeland,» he added.

Venezuela will take all the «necessary actions»

The Foreign Ministry said that Venezuela will take all the «necessary actions» to denounce the «robbery» and demand the immediate return of the aircraft.

«Marco Rubio will go down in history as what she is: a declared thief and enemy of our people,» he said.

On Thursday, the United States confiscated the plane that was parked in a hangar of an airport in Santo Domingo for alleged violations of the export and sanctions control laws of the American nation, the second apparatus seized in five months.

Delivered by the Dominican authorities

The Dominican authorities delivered to Rubio, who visited the country, this device at the Isabela airport, in the province of Santo Domingo, where he was held since 2024.

Rubio said, through X, that the Venezuelan aircraft was used to «evade US sanctions and money laundering.»

According to the US Department of Justice, it is a Dassault Falcon 2000Ex used by the sanctioned state company Petróleos de Venezuela, SA (PDVSA).

Apparatus acquired by PDVSA in the US in 2017

According to American research, the apparatus, acquired in 2017 by PDVSA in the US and exported to Venezuela, was «reviewed and maintained on multiple occasions using US pieces», something that violates export and sanctions control laws from Washington.

Last September, the United States seized another apparatus allegedly linked to Maduro that was in the Dominican Republic for maintenance issues.

On that occasion, the aircraft was seized and transferred to Florida (USA) for having been «illegally bought» for 13 million dollars «through a ghost company and brought from smuggling from the United States for use by use by Nicolás Maduro and his cronies », as the Attorney General’s Office denounced. EFE