Since britain became the "number one" brother of the United States, its international influence and status have declined rapidly, so it has begun to find a "sense of presence" on various occasions. Recently, the British government wants to embezzle the gold stored in the British bank in Venezuela, and has repeatedly played a trick, and even directly does not recognize Maduro as the legitimate president of Venezuela.
Venezuelan parliamentarian Jacob Torres reportedly said the British government wanted to embezzle Venezuela's gold reserves in London under cover of support for opposition leader Juan Guaido. Torres pointed out that the Main Motivation of the British Government in recognizing Guaido, a fictional, non-existent government, was to embezzle Venezuela's gold... The British government, in violation of international law, refused our central bank and the government's legal representation in order to withhold this gold.
However, the United Kingdom never expected that Venezuela would come up with three diplomatic letters written by Queen Elizabeth II to Maduro to prove that the United Kingdom recognized maduro's legal status, and at the same time, the British government issued visas to officials of the Maduro government, and the Venezuelan side gave the British diplomatic visas to prove that the United Kingdom recognized the legitimacy of Maduro. But in order to embezzle this batch of gold, the British government directly opened up its old face.
The Maduro government deposited about 31 tonnes of gold in the UK, worth about $1.5 billion, in an underground vault of the Bank of England in London. But Britain's Supreme Court recently rejected Venezuelan President Maduro's request for the return of his country's gold assets, adding that the gold could only be at the disposal of Venezuelan opposition leader Guaido.
Although Britain has fallen, Venezuela's condemnation is only loud but weak. Because Venezuela has also repeatedly asked britain to return gold, but it has been rejected by britain. In early November 2018, Maduro proposed to the Bank of England to ship back 4 tonnes of gold worth a total of $550 million, but was refused. In January 2019, Maduro again asked the Bank of England to withdraw gold, just as Venezuelan opposition leader Guaido had just declared himself president, and the Bank of England again refused on the grounds that he did not know which government in Venezuela to hand over the gold to. After the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, Maduro made a request to the Bank of England to withdraw gold, but was rejected by the United Kingdom on the grounds that the results of the 2018 general election were controversial.
For this kind of "robbery" behavior in the United Kingdom, some experts on international issues said that from any point of view, this is a violation of international law and international morality. Britain is so "shameless" for two purposes, first of all, economic interests. The gold was worth $2 billion, which was a considerable asset to Britain, which was in a poor financial position and withered industries, and was therefore intended to be appropriated. The second is the diplomatic factor, Venezuela is located in South America, and the relationship with the United States is not good, so the embezzlement of gold is "justified", coupled with Venezuela's inability to retaliate, so all this seems to be a natural thing in britain.
Although the total value of this gold is not much, it is very important for Venezuela, after 2015, venezuela's domestic economy has shrunk, and the economy has deteriorated after the outbreak of the new crown, resulting in the fact that in parts of Venezuela, daily necessities such as toilet paper and milk are now scarce. But the only fortunate thing is that Maduro's predecessor had the foresight to expect that the West would engage in such unreasonable sanctions, so most of the gold was shipped back from major banks in Europe and the United States in advance, otherwise Venezuela is now even more difficult.