During the inauguration of the Caracas 2023 Criabúfalos National Fair, the president asserted that those captured in the PDVSA corruption case “are very powerful” and expressed that their names will be known “in the coming days.”
During a speech broadcast this Wednesday, March 29 the mandatary Nicolas Maduro He spoke about the plot of corruption by public officials and businessmen in PDVSA. “We already have the confession of almost half of those captured, of the misdeeds and robberies that they were committing against our Republic,” she assured.
He asked the research organizations to find the resources to be invested in social programs. “They have to guarantee me and the Prosecutor’s Office has to guarantee this country, that all those resources are found and reinvested in the State and we can put them in social programs for our people sooner rather than later.”
In this sense, he affirmed that his government has “a married mission. The Venezuela of good and the Venezuela of corruption.
“I am filled with anger, I am outraged, that people you trusted robbed the people (…) I was outraged, we gave them all our trust and they ended up robbing the people in such difficult circumstances,” he said.
He explained that when they proceeded to investigate the case “we knew that we were going to deal a severe blow against the rotten corruption schemes. We are not going to stop in the fight against the bad guys, the corrupt, the bandits.
“What I am is angry with these bandits and I will take all the circumstances that I can take against all these bandits,” Maduro reiterated.
“The businessmen who are involved in this corruption are very powerful, you are going to get to know them these days, they are very powerful. They have barely managed to capture a part of the wealth, mansions, in the Country Club, where they had orgies, terrible, “he emphasized during the transmission of the Caracas 2023 National Criabúfalos Fair.
Arrested for corruption in PDVSA
The prosecutor Tarek William Saab reported that public officials, judges and businessmen who have been arrested in recent days for being involved in corruption schemes have been charged. Saab reported that the Public ministry (MP) requested custodial measures for those apprehended “that were agreed with the court.”
Earlier, through the same social network, he reported the start of the hearing to charge the detainees “for corruption schemes involving PDVSA officials, the National Superintendence of Cryptactives, judges and businessmen.”
Among the 19 detainees presented, stand out Antonio José Pérez Suárez, vice president of Commerce and Supply of PDVSA and head of the corruption structure; Joselit de La Trinidad Ramírez Camacho, National Superintendent of Cryptoactives and crypto-financial operator; Hugbel Rafael Roa Carucci, former deputy of the 2020 National Assembly.
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