Between 2015 and 2017, Jhonnathan Marín used his position of influence as mayor of Guanta to help award PDVSA contracts to businessmen, receiving bribes totaling $3. 800,000, according to the accusation of the Prosecutor’s Office
The judge of the Southern District of Florida, Robert Scola, gave the green light to a petition presented by the defense of Jonnathan Marín, former Chavista mayor of the Guanta municipality, to postpone his voluntary surrender to the prison authorities scheduled for April 20.
With this extension of Marín’s period for his surrender, the former Venezuelan official will be locked up in prison on July 25 and will remain deprived of liberty for 27 months, according to a sentence against him for crimes of corruption and money laundering.
The 27 months are the product of a reduction in the sentence for all of Marín’s collaboration at the time of being investigated, since he helped the investigation progress by providing valuable information for the case.
On April 21, 2022, Marín was indicted by the United States Attorney for one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
The investigation details that, under his role as mayor of Guanta, he helped companies receive contracts to carry out projects in the state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela.
Between 2015 and 2017, he received bribe payments totaling $3. 800,000, according to the accusation of the Prosecutor’s Office. This money was given to the Venezuelan contractor Carlos Enrique Urbano Fermín.
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The funds were transferred by Marín himself to family accounts in South Florida and were used to purchase luxury goods, such as property and private jets.
The maximum sentence that Marín faced was about five years in prison, a penalty that the other accused in this case, Carlos Enrique Urbano Fermín, did face, who is serving them under a probationary regime after paying the bail imposed by the court.
Marín, 44, was mayor of the Venezuelan port city of Guanta for nearly a decade until he resigned in 2017. He fled his country amid a major purge at state oil company PDVSA — just as it is in the current context. with the Pdvsa Cripto plot—and the government of Nicolás Maduro ordered his arrest for corruption and prohibited him from holding public office.
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