Existing Bonds The existing bonds targeted by the sanctions are due in 2036 and were issued by Venezuela late last year to two government entities and had, in recent months, been shopped around in an effort to raise cash. Opposition leaders criticized a transaction in May in which Goldman Sachs Asset Management bought almost $3 billion of securities from the central bank through a broker, and have called for an investigation. Those bonds will be unaffected by the measures. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a list of Venezuelan securities that can be traded. https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/venezuela_gl3.pdf

Existing Bonds

The existing bonds targeted by the sanctions are due in 2036 and were issued by Venezuela late last year to two government entities and had, in recent months, been shopped around in an effort to raise cash. Opposition leaders criticized a transaction in May in which Goldman Sachs Asset Management bought almost $3 billion of securities from the central bank through a broker, and have called for an investigation. Those bonds will be unaffected by the measures.

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a list of Venezuelan securities that can be traded.

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/venezuela_gl3.pdf


https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/venezuela_gl3.pdf