Attorney General Tarek William Saab said further arrests are expected for other corruption schemes. He said that 127 people have been investigated in 31 cases of irregularities against public property committed in more than a decade. When asked about the possible participation of the former Oil Minister, Tareck El Aissami, he stated that he would not provide details “about any name in particular. I’m not going to autotube»
Tarek William Saab, prosecutor appointed by the defunct constituent assembly, reported that as of this Wednesday, April 5, there are 51 people arrested for the various corruption schemes recently revealed by the National Anti-Corruption Police.
In the early hours of this Wednesday, another 13 people were presented in court for alleged crimes related to the corruption plot revealed within the administration of Nicolás Maduro, which culminated at 6:00 am. Among them are the president of the Venezuelan Corporation of Guayana (CVG), Pedro Maldonado and Hugo Cabezas, who presides over the state Cartones de Venezuela.
In the case of Pdvsa Cripto, 34 people are detained, among them Hugbel Roa, Joselit Ramírez Camacho, Antonio Pérez Suárez, José Agustín Ramos, Yamil Martínez, Odoardo José Bordones, Heinrich Chapellín, Jesús Enrique Salazar, Rajiv Alberto Mosqueda, Alejandro Arroyo, Bernardo Arosio, Fernando Bermudez, Leonardo Torres, Jackeline Perico, José Lima, Jesús Ramírez, José Luís Silva, Gustavo Carmona, Juan Moreno, Pedro Fernández, Oscar Rojas, Jean Golman Meyer, Cardozo González, Luis Guzmán and Miguel Irigoyen.
Due to this investigation, Saab admitted that the businessman Fernando Bermúdez has not yet been arrested as previously reported and that he would have fled to Spain. “He has an arrest warrant, he is a fugitive in Spain, we hope that Spain will hand him over.”
In relation to the CVG and Sidor (Siderúrgica del Orinoco), Pedro Rolando Maldonado Marín, Edgar José Sánchez La Mantía, Felipe Santiago Contreras Caldera, Lino Jairo Mora Gómez, Tulio José Medina Gianfelice, Carlos Eduardo Moreno González, Johan Manuel Sequera Manrique are being detained. , Isaac Mouhamad Salazar Guerrero.
With respect to judicial corruption plot there are six people arrested: Cristóbal Cornieles Perret, José Mascimino Márquez, Yorwis Johan Bracho Gómez, Loreannys Mariana Mejías, Mario Aquino Pisano and Fabiola Andreina Torrealba.
While in relation to the irregular acts in the mayor’s office of the Santos Michelena municipality in Las Tejerías, Aragua state, former mayor Pedro Hernández appears as detained.
When asked about the possible participation of the former Oil Minister, Tareck El Aissami, in the corruption plot, he said that he would not provide details on future or ongoing investigations or “on any particular name. I’m not going to self-tube.”
After his resignation on March 20 as head of the Oil portfolio, the legal situation and whereabouts of El Aissami are unknown to date.
Saab and the Ramírez case
Tarek William Saab alluded to the case of Rafael Reiter, former PDVSA head of security and loss prevention, who will testify against Rafael Ramírez, former PDVSA president and former oil minister, before a court in Texas, United States. He recalled that Roberto Enrique Rincón Fernández and Abraham José Shiera Bastidas are being prosecuted in the US for “illegal acts committed against public property in Venezuela” and for bribing Bariven officials.
He stated that they have arrest warrants and extradition requests, for which he asked the American and Italian courts to hand over to the Venezuelan justice those involved in “this mafia”.
“The document issued by the US court refers to the possibility of Reiter testifying against Ramírez, for a corruption plot, which consisted of receiving bribes in exchange for using his authority in PDVSA to assign multimillion-dollar public projects that were paid to contractors with state money,” he said from the headquarters of the Public Ministry.
Regarding Nervis Villalobos, former Vice Minister of Electric Power, he said he is accused of channeling bribes and managing the funds of all the participants in the corruption scheme, as well as Diego Salazar, who committed irregularities with the management of domestic and international insurance for PDVSA .
“Villalobos had accounts in Andorra and Switzerland, which he used to grant bribery payments to PDVSA officials, including Rafael Ramírez, who demanded that the payments not be sent directly to him,” Saab said, reiterating that all these cases have also been investigated. by the Venezuelan prosecutor.
Total
On the other hand, Saab indicated that 127 people have been investigated in 31 cases of irregularities. against public property committed in more than a decade. “Venezuelan justice has acted in an efficient and timely manner in these cases,” he said.
Of this number of 127 investigated, 10 are in the preliminary phase, 16 in the trial phase, 75 convicted for a total of 228.
“There are 361 former officials prosecuted for corruption (…) I would like to highlight this long fight that the Ministry has led not only for Pdvsa Cripto, but in general we have made 63,188 actions, 11,364 acts, 1,690 charges and 667 accusations.”
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