Detainees for corruption plot in Venezuela rise to 42

The Venezuelan authorities arrested 15 people in the last few hours for their alleged involvement in a corruption plot denounced by the Government of Venezuelawith which the detainees add up to 42 for these events, the attorney general reported this Saturday, Tarek William Saab.

“To date the Public ministry (MP, Prosecutor’s Office) managed -together with the auxiliary bodies- the arrest of 42 subjects linked to the various corruption schemes that sought to embezzle (in their criminal immorality) the national economy, damaging the community in general”, Saab pointed out on his Twitter account.

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The prosecutor did not offer details about the identity of the detainees or what positions they hold within State institutions.

On Friday, Saab announced the arrest of two executives from the oil industry, identified as Jackeline Perico and Jose Lima“attached to the Executive Directorate of Production of the Orinoco Oil Belt”, an extensive area that houses the largest proven crude oil reserves.

Both officials, he continued, “They will be accused of acts of corruption, where they appear as participants in the plot” developed in the state pdvsa and in the Superintendence of Crypto Assets (Sunacrip).

On the other hand, he reported that the “serious factsof corruption in the Venezuelan Corporation of Guyana (CVG), one day after the Anti-Corruption Police request the fiscal entity to prosecute a “set of officials” of this conglomerate of public companies of mining, forestry and electrical resources, among others, located in the state Bolivar (south).

On March 17, the Anti-Corruption Police issued a first statement in which it requested the prosecution of an unknown number of citizens who “performed functions in the Power of attorneyin the oil industry and in some municipal mayoralties”.

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Subsequently, the Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that a deputy, the head of the cryptoactive public entity, a mayor, five workers from a PDVSA vice presidency led by Anthony Perez -also detained-, two employees of the Municipality of Digital Mining and Associated Processes and three judges are among those implicated in the corruption schemes and will be tried.

Also making up the group of apprehended 11 businessmen who, according to the prosecutor, are associated with money laundering operations, proceeding from these illegal operations in the oil and crypto-asset sectors.

Source: Elcomercio

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