Venezuela’s Ministry of Defense told a New York federal judge Friday that Canadian mining company Crystallex can’t seize funds from a Bank of New York Mellon account, arguing that the money belongs entirely to another company. Quinn Smith of GST LLP, counsel for Venezuela, further elucidated that the move by Crystallex to establish a New York judgment against the Ministry goes against “the trust and its language that states’ assets are immune under US and customary international law.”