Venezuelan government detains more than 30 PDVSA workers

FILE PHOTO: Venezuela's Interior and Justice Minister Nestor Reverol takes part in a broadcast in Caracas, Venezuela March 21, 2019.

In addition to Vargas, agents also detained his assistant, six members from the Paraguaná refinery's dispatch service and 30 crew members from PDV Marina's"Negra Hipólita" tanker, the minister said during a live broadcast on state television. "This is not simply an act of diverting fuel, it is also an act of treason because people are lining up at service stations for fuel because of US empire's sanctions," Reverol added."We had been denouncing that Oswaldo Vargas used oil tankers for fuel trafficking," Eudis Girot, one of the executives of the country's oil workers federation, told Reuters.

The ship allegedly changed course to sail between Venezuela and the Netherlands Antilles,"where they illegally sold hydrocarbons to unknown individuals through a transfer operation to a vessel with a"Colombian flag," said the state television news anchor, without offering other details.

Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)

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