Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said this Saturday that the gold held by the state in Britain “will continue to be protected” in the country to keep it “away” from a “dictatorship”, referring to the government of President Nicolás Maduro.

“Protecting assets, such as gold, which will remain safe in the UK, is key to Venezuela’s future, keeping them away from the dictatorship that plundered the nation and used state resources to finance corruption and repression,” he wrote. deputy on his Twitter account.

On July 29, the London High Court ruled in favor of the parallel board of the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) appointed by Guaido in the gold case.

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After the four-day trial, which ended on July 18, Judge Sara Cockerill, from the Commercial division, considered that she could not accept the Venezuelan Supreme Court (TSJ) ruling overturning Guaido’s appointment to the council, as there was no legal basis in Britain to do so. .

Accordingly, the UK’s highest judiciary has determined that the London Executive only recognizes Guaido, and not Maduro, as the head of Venezuela, and therefore, the actions and decisions of the opposing party must be deemed sovereign, under British law. the One Voice doctrine, which obliges State estates to continue the unity of foreign policy.

This decision, celebrated by Guaido, was described as “unusual” by the Venezuelan Executive, who called on the British Government to “fix” and “not continue the antics of pretending” that the anti-Chavista is the country’s president.

The BCV, for its part, takes “very seriously that Britain’s foreign policy, which, in this case directly, muzzled its courts, is causing serious damage to the rights and interests of other citizens, institutions and nations.”

The issuing entity, prior to this action, reported that it “reserves all possible legal action to appeal this unusual and disastrous decision in defense of gold.”