Did Citibank Just Grab a Billion Dollars Worth of the Venezuelan Government’s Gold?

‘Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday that Citibank NA C.UL, planned to shut his government’s foreign currency accounts within a month, denouncing the move by one of its main foreign financial intermediaries as part of a “blockade,” reports Reuters
“With no warning, Citibank says that in 30 days it will close the Central Bank and the Bank of Venezuela’s accounts,” Maduro said in a speech, adding that the government used the U.S. bank for transactions in the United States and globally.
“Do you think they’re going to stop us with a financial blockade? No, gentlemen. Noone stops Venezuela.”‘
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