Yoeli Landau

While Venezuelans starved, Maduro lived like a king: jets, mansions & luxury fleets. How? He dodged sanctions by using crypto. Scheme: Sell oil to China, pocket USDT (Tether): digital dollars fueled his billionaire empire. Captured in '26, but following the dollars exposes it all. 🧵💰 1. Venezuela flipped to Tether’s USDT payments in 2024, mandating crypto wallets & prepays. Sanctions? Irrelevant. This kept billions flowing, turning Maduro from bus driver to alleged $3B+ tycoon. 2. Oil-to-China evasion playbook: - Load crude in Venezuela - Ghost ships sneak it out - Ditch trackers for shady transfers - Rebrand as "Malaysian" blend - Feed China's Shandong teapots Scale: China's #1 buyer, via sanction-proof intermediaries. 🚢🛢️ 3. Payment pipeline: Chinese buyers → traders → USDT zapped to regime wallets → cash out OTC. No banks, no oversight. Just a shadow dollar system that bloated Maduro's hidden fortune. 4. Proof: Tether froze some evasion-linked wallets. Yet crypto kept Maduro afloat, funding his high life: 18M Dominican beach mansion, Florida pads, horse farms, 20-car garage (Mercedes, Cadillacs, exotics), $700M+ in seized jets & jewels. 5. Bottom line: Sanctions became a joke as crypto turned oil into Maduro's personal piggy bank. From "humble" origins to billionaire baller via crypto.

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