When Chavez took back 11 billion in gold bars and Maduro sold them off I am sure some of that money ended up in Maduro's pockets.
the Maduro regime began selling them off to raise the cash it desperately needed to fund imports and to try, unsuccessfully, to avoid defaulting on its foreign debt.
“When Chavez took back 11 billion in gold bars and Maduro sold them off”
That is probably the Turkey connection - gold and oil smuggling are the biggest rackets of the Erdogan Crime Family.