the bank manager Emerald Ortega Polanco has been formally accused of using her knowledge of the banking system and putting it at the service of those involved in the coral net so that its members could carry out 90% of their financial transactions without filing Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs).
This has been established by the Special Prosecutor’s Office for the Persecution of the Corruption Administrative (Pepca) in the accusation filed against senior officials and their associates, submitted after allegedly having incurred in an association of criminals to embezzle funds from the Specialized Corps of Presidential Security (cusp) and the Specialized Tourist Security Corps (Cestur).
The Public Ministry says that Ortega Polanco “actively collaborated so that the withdrawals and deposits of large amounts of cash were made at the branch in which she was assigned as manager.”
The researchers define it as a figure of “paramount importance” for the structure. Thanks to the manager, supposedly “the operations were carried out without raising any type of alert regarding the suspicious transactions committed by the accused, headed by Rafael Nunez de Aza as the financial brain of the illicit actions committed by the group”.
Pepca says that 90% of the illicit transactions were made at the bank branch where Ortega was the manager.
The manager was assigned the code 550. The Pepca explains that the nickname is due to the fact that the illicit transactions were made in the branch of the Banco de Reservas number 550, which is located in the Texaco fuel station on Venezuela Avenue, where the accused was a manager.
The benefits for her
The Pepca establishes that “550” was a kind of financial assistant to Colonel Rafael Núñez de Aza and that he even gave instructions on his behalf, “for transfers in the name of third parties who did not really sign the deposits, which constitutes identity theft, verifying the falsification through expert opinion in some cases”.
They detail that the accused prepared loans in the name of third parties even though she knew they were for Colonel Rafael Núñez de Aza. The Public Ministry says that in exchange for his participation, Ortega Polanco received money in cash and through transfers that were made by members of the same network, in addition to the payroll of Cesturpaid salaries to their spouse and eldest son, without these being military, nor belonging to that institution.
The Sixth Investigating Court of the National District is working on the logistics to set a date and start the preliminary hearing against the accused of the Coral and Coral 5G network. According to information provided to Diario Libre, it is being studied in which space the hearings of this case will be held, due to the large number of defendants (30 defendants); plus the lawyers of the 18 accused companies, and the members of the Public Ministry.
