The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) withdrew Marleny Contreras, wife of Minister Diosdado Cabello, and legislator Jorge Arreaza of the preventive list of frozen assets linked to the administration of Nicolás Maduro, by determining that none of them have assets in that territory or indications of illegal acts against them.
The update of the Swiss registry included the incorporation of six people, including businessmen Álex Saab and Álvaro Pulido, making the The total list of citizens under this preventive measure went from 37 to 41 individuals.
He freezing of assets was initially decreed on January 5, two days after Maduro’s arrest, protected by Swiss legislation on illicit assets.
The legal provision functions as a temporary precautionary blockade to prevent the outflow of capital while international investigations into its origin progress, with validity set until 2030 and the formal commitment to return to the Venezuelan people the resources whose irregular origin is demonstrated. This registry includes direct family members, former officials and close associates of the state environment.
According to sources close to the process, the Bern authorities corrected the inclusion of Contreras and Arreaza after verifying the non-existence of accounts or properties in their names in the Swiss financial system. For their part, sectors close to the Venezuelan leadership evaluated the government update as a flexibility in the position of European countries.
The Swiss ruling came two days after the US Treasury Department removed Jorge Rodríguez, president of the National Assembly, from its sanctions list, a measure that added to the previous removal of Delcy Rodríguez from the US list in April.
Representatives of the North American government told international media that these resolutions correspond to the political transition plans and dialogue with the authorities in office.
Despite the changes in the European list, leaders of the ruling sector will maintain restrictions in North America, where Diosdado Cabello and his daughter Daniella Cabello, current Minister of Tourism, remain subject to the sanctions in force by the US administration.
