Lawyer Alejandro Terán Martínez denounced before the Public Ministry “a strategy to destroy the national oil industry” allegedly orchestrated by Carlos Veccio from the United States.
Terán Martínez consigned a document in the office of the attorney general, Tarek William Saab, where he points out that this strategy has the support of certain factors in the Venezuelan Judiciary.
The complainant maintains that Jesús Alberto Pérez Oropeza is one of Veccio’s alleged partners in that plan that ultimately seeks to gradually paralyze oil production.
One of the actions carried out in this strategy was to take possession of ICM Proyectos 2001, the main supplier of the state-owned Petropiar.
“Basically, the objective was for Petropiar not to reach its production goal, since they cut off ICM’s possibilities as an important contractor for Petropiar and with an Ofac license through Chevrón. This was woven in Carlos Veccio’s office in the United States from where this character presented himself as the supposed ambassador of Venezuela,” said Terán Martínez.
The investigations that ICM carried out revealed that one of the PDVSA operators, currently detained by the National Anti-Corruption Police, was seeking to intervene in the company and then give it a concession and keep the equipment used for the Petropiar operation, explained Terán Martínez.
The claim to seize ICM to prevent Chevron from managing the operations once authorized by the United States, would be carried out through a judicial action that effectively placed a provisional board in ICM ordered by the 3rd Anti-Terrorism Court in charge of Luisa Garrido.
“It is necessary to remember that Judge Garrido’s decision was revoked and she was dismissed by the Judicial Commission of the Supreme Court of Justice,” said Terán Martínez.
“Several things in this process call attention: first, everything was synchronized in the anti-terrorism court; second, the jurisdiction was incorrect because it should have been processed in a court in Anzoátegui; third, there was never a complainant but only a proxy, a complaint was never made, nor was the alleged victim present at any time in Venezuela; It is striking how this case came to a terrorism court, being a commercial fact, ”the complainant broke down.
Terán Martínez indicated that these PDVSA officials, currently detained for alleged acts of corruption in that industry, “bet on the suffocation of ICM and with it the hanging of Petropiar, as a first head in the plan to disturb Venezuelan oil production.”
