The Permanent Comptrollership Commission of the illegitimate National Assembly (AN) approved, with the vote of seven deputies, a report that admits the “irregularities perpetrated” by designated officials in the company Monómeros, the Venezuelan subsidiary of Pequiven based in Colombia, specifically with Guillermo Rodríguez Laprea, general manager of Monómeros.
“The report declares the political responsibility of Guillermo Rodríguez Laprea, because he hid information from the legitimate AN in order to prevent the truth about the contracting with the LyonStree company from being known,” the parallel parliament said on its Twitter account.
They also blame Diana Bracho, ad hoc president of Pequiven, for the acts of corruption that have been occurring in the state-owned PDVSA.
Before assuming the management of Monómeros, Laprea represented the company LyonStree to propose a legal deal to a subsidiary company of Pequiven, where he ran the risk “of a takeover, not hostile, but subtle.”
According to the report, the agreement between Monómeros and LyonStreet, signed in April of last year, transferred “the powers of the Venezuelan asset to that Panamanian company” for 15 years.
The report recommends complying with the agreements of the Comptrollership Commission on the “total structuring of the board of directors of Monómeros Colombo-Venezolano SA, as well as the performance of an internal audit.”
The Comptroller Commission indicated that it will send the report to the leadership of the parallel parliament “for the purpose of doing what is legally and administratively conducive to protect these assets of the Republic.”
Since 2019, the president of Colombia, Iván Duque, decided to grant the management of the Pequiven subsidiary to the self-proclaimed president of the Republic, Juan Guaidó.
Monómeros supplies approximately 45% of the fertilizers used for agricultural production in Colombia.
The solution to the crisis in the Colombian-Venezuelan company is in the hands of the new president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, who plans to return control of the subsidiary to the Venezuelan government.
Monómeros was seized by the government of Iván Duque and handed over to the opposition board that seeks the total expropriation of the Creole company.
The arrival of Petro to the Government of Colombia marks a new stage in political and economic relations with the Venezuelan Executive
The Venezuelan government has repeatedly denounced the corruption plot carried out by opponents in the company. Even in September 2021, the Colombian Superintendency of Companies required the board of directors to inform it of its decisions due to the alleged irregular management by the ad hoc board.
In addition, on May 25, José Luis Pirela, who was a deputy for the opposition to the National Assembly during the period 2015-2020, presented a document to the Colombian Prosecutor’s Office in which he denounced the company’s board of directors, and in special to its general manager and legal representative, Guillermo Rodríguez Lamprea, about the alleged commission of various crimes, including theft, private corruption, unfair administration, and improper use of privileged information for personal gain.
Rodríguez Lamprea would have entered into contracts even with ghost companies linked to the group of Leopold Lopez.
Petro and Monomers
On July 8, the president-elect of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, said that plan to return the administration of the company to the Venezuelan government presided over by Nicolás Maduro, in order to reduce the cost of fertilizers in his country.
“In the Monómeros company of the Venezuelan petrochemical company Pequiven, the urea used in our country was produced. Iván Duque caused the loss of fundamental raw material in the Colombian agricultural sector, in addition to creating a financial strangulation (of the Venezuelan state company), more because of Colombian officials, ”he said.
He asserted that “the majority owner of Monómeros is Pequiven.”
