The Spanish government confirmed the extradition to the United States of Claudia Patricia Diaz Guillenthe then nurse of the former president Hugo Chavez and former treasurer of Venezuela, this after being requested by the US authorities for alleged conspiracy to launder money and money laundering.
The decision had been expected since November 2021, when the Criminal Chamber of the Spanish National Court authorized the extradition of Díaz Guillén in the middle of a case in which a illegal currency exchange business that would have benefited her and her husband, Adrian Velasquezwho was also Chavez’s security chief.
Guillen was part of the National Treasury Office of Venezuela between 2011 and 2013from where he managed the ‘Fonden’, a fund created to deposit the income from oil exports and which was never audited or reviewed by the National Assembly. It is presumed that through this fund manipulated exchange transactions with foreign currencies.
According to the AP agency, the former nurse he kept his fortune turned into 250 gold bars (one kilo each) in a secret chamber through a shell company that was established on the island of Saint Vincent and the Grenadinesthen these ingots would have been sold and the money would have deposited in a Swiss bank.
