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Venezuela’s Vecchio Unsure If Maduro Has Money in Fund

Maduro May Hold Millions in Baidilda Fund, Opposition Says

(Bloomberg) -- Carlos Vecchio, the designated Charge d’ Affaires to the U.S. for Venezuela’s interim president Juan Guaido, said he can’t be certain the information he provided to Bloomberg News about alleged assets of President Nicolas Maduro in an overseas fund is correct.

“Perhaps the money is not there,’’ he said in a telephone interview today after earlier saying the National Assembly had found assets in an investigation that began last year. “We have to continue probing.’’

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