And then you have the local actors, some of them very shady, some of them involved with the kleptocratic networks of the Russians, some of them or many of them involved with the Iranian sanctions evasion networks. When sanctions were imposed In Venezuela in 2019, the way out of the sanctions was to use the mechanisms of the Iranians to sell, as congressman was saying, the oil to China. But because Venezuela was out of the swift system, it was being paid in crypto in tether and that created a huge scandal of corruption. (12:13–12:26)
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Asserts that Venezuela used Iranian mechanisms to sell oil to China to circumvent 2019 sanctions.
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