The Nuevo Herald newspaper reports that the new charges against Maikel Moreno are related to his attempt to deposit money in his Miami bank accounts, which would have been obtained fraudulently in Venezuela.
The federal prosecutor’s office of South Florida in the United States presented on Thursday, January 26, new charges against the former president of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), Maikel Moreno, for allegedly participating in a conspiracy network that sought to launder money, which was obtained by alleged extortion in Venezuela, in US banks.
according to New Heraldthe new charges against Moreno are related to his attempt to deposit money in his Miami bank accounts, funds that would have been obtained illegally in Venezuela.
Apparently, the former president of the TSJ spent a million dollars on private flights from Venezuela to Miami and other destinations, which would be related to this activity. He also refers that authorities detected purchases in the order of 600 thousand dollars to buy items from fashion houses; like him, he spent large amounts of money repairing luxury watches and made a payment of $40,000 to a director of a Venezuelan beauty pageant.
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The investigation against Maikel Moreno began when the Department of Homeland Security Investigations unit and Assistant District Attorney Michael Berger began conducting inquiries into bribery and money laundering schemes among PDVSA officials and contractors in Miami and other locations.
The initial investigations carried out in the US revealed that Moreno received money for bribery in exchange for favoring at least 20 legal proceedings in order to free people accused of committing crimes in Venezuela.
Maikel Moreno, who lived in South Florida, tried to commit immigration fraud before he was president of the TSJ. In addition, the US is asking for a reward against it for five million dollars in 2020 for this bribery case, according to the then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
A document, signed by the special agent of the Department of Homeland Security Shauna Willard, indicates that between 2012 and 2018 Moreno deliberately made a transaction through a US bank to purchase a property in the order of $10,000, which was has apparently been used for illegal activities.
It is also indicated that in 2017, the TSJ magistrate made a transfer of 700,000 dollars from Puerto Rico to a bank account in Miami, which allegedly came from money obtained illegally.
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Maikel Moreno, as denounced in October 2020 the national coordinator of Voluntad Popular, Leopoldo López, was a key figure in the failed military uprising of April 30, 2019, since he had promised to issue a sentence ordering the dissolution of the illegitimate constituent assembly, disregarding the presidential elections of 2018 and call for new presidential presidential elections; but in the end he and other senior officials such as Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López backed down.
«Maikel Moreno had been working with us directly. That sentence exists, it was written and Moreno had promised that it would be published that same April 30 between 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m., “López revealed then.
Later, the president Nicolás Maduro came forward by saying that this had been a strategy to “purify” the security forces and reveal the alleged plot against him.
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