April 2, 2023, 11:00 AM
April 2, 2023, 11:00 AM
Venezuelan authorities 15 people have been arrested in the last few hours for his alleged involvement in a corruption plot denounced by the Government of Venezuela, bringing the number of detainees to 42 for these events, the Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, reported this Saturday (04.02.2023).
“To date, the Public Ministry (MP, Prosecutor’s Office) managed, together with the auxiliary bodies, the arrest of 42 subjects linked to the various corruption plots that sought to embezzle (in their criminal immorality) the national economyharming the community in general,” Saab said on his Twitter account. The prosecutor He did not offer details about the identity of the detainees or what charges they hold within state institutions.
On Friday, Saab announced the arrest of two executives from the oil industry, identified as Jackeline Perico and José Lima, “attached to the Executive Directorate of Production of the Orinoco Oil Belt,” an extensive area that is home to the largest proven crude oil reserves. . Both officials, he continued, “will be charged with acts of corruption, where they appear as participants in the plot” developed in the state PDVSA and in the Superintendency of Cryptoactives (Sunacrip).
On the other hand, he reported that the “serious facts” of corruption in the Venezuelan Corporation of Guayana (CVG) will be investigated, one day after the Anti-Corruption Police asked the fiscal entity to prosecute a “group of officials” of this conglomerate of public companies of mining, forestry and electrical resources, among others, located in the state of Bolívar (south).
On March 17, the Anti-Corruption Police issued a first statement in which it requested the prosecution of an undetermined number of citizens who “exercised functions in the Judiciary, in the oil industry and in some municipal mayors’ offices.”
Subsequently, the Prosecutor confirmed that a deputythe head of the public entity of crypto assets, a mayorfive workers from a PDVSA vice-presidency led by Antonio Pérez -also detained-, two employees of the Digital Mining and Associated Processes Intendency and three judges They are among those implicated in the corruption schemes and will be tried.
The group of apprehended also includes 11 businessmen which, according to the prosecutor, are associated with money laundering operations, from these illegal operations in the oil and crypto-asset sectors.
