Venezuela Arrests 11 Top Executives of Private Banesco Bank

Venezuela Arrests 11 Top Executives of Private Banesco Bank
A man walks past the corporate logo of Banesco bank at one of their office complexes in Caracas, Venezuela May 3, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
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CARACAS—Venezuela said on Thursday it had arrested 11 top executives of the country’s leading private bank, Banesco, for “attacks” against the OPEC country’s rapidly depreciating currency, the leftist government’s latest move against the private sector.

The detentions come on the heels of last month’s shock arrests of two Venezuelan executives working in the country for U.S. oil major Chevron .