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The Spanish media reported days ago that Judge Santiago Pedraz has requested access to associates of Alejandro Betancourt that have already pleaded guilty in the U.S. (Operation Money Flight), as part of criminal probes into multibillion dollar money laundering schemes led by the Department of Justice (DOJ). Pedraz needs these key witnesses, allegedly, to be able to demonstrate the illicit origin of the money laundered by Betancourt in Spain, Switzerland and elsewhere.

Leaving this here for future reference. Alejandro Betancourt, the "innocent" man the Trump administration claims wasn't being investigated, escaped a Spanish police arrest attempt because that's what the innocent do when police shows up. The operation to arrest Betancourt included "officers from Europol and from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE)". That would be U.S.

President Donald Trump is a very busy man. He doesn't have much time to be entertaining anything or anyone for long. The recent announcement of his administration getting into some kind of a partnership with Alejandro Betancourt does bring one relevant question: who made the intro and got the fee? The Washington Post has advanced the hypothetical option of Mauricio Claver-Carone, as the behind-scenes architect of the deal.

Jeffrey Epstein too was controversial, remember? For many years, the sweet deal that Epstein cut with Alex Acosta was referred to as controversial. Acosta would become Trump's labor secretary. But there was no controversy, was there? For well over a decade, Epstein laughed at law enforcement while cultivating and exploiting relations at the highest levels in the U.S. and elsewhere. Epstein's friends were all in awe of his worldliness and sophistication, of his suave demeanor, of his erudition.

UPDATED [SEE BELOW] - Axios, largely perceived as the quasi-official propaganda organ of Marco Rubio and Donald Trump, gave some clues this morning about reasons behind the U.S. government's decision to pick Alejandro Betancourt as partner. Most of the stuff Infodio readers have known for years have been confirmed by Axios, but some claims merit further scrutiny.

The White House put out a Fact Sheet about the "biggest oil deal in world history" that Donald Trump did with Alejandro Betancourt. We would encourage readers to save a copy of the original version published for future reference. Said Fact Sheet raises a number of questions:

This is a guest post from Alek Boyd - It is the end of 2025. Imagine being a billionaire controlling your own banks, allegedly a legitimate businessman with operations spanning the globe, and getting arrested twice in London, on competing international arrest warrants issued by Spain and Switzerland. You read it correctly: Switzerland. Imagine having to surrender passports and suffer the indignity of having to fight an extradition request from Switzerland, linked to a multi billion dollar money laundering case.

This site has, without a doubt, the largest collection of research about Alejandro Betancourt's criminal activities. What started in 2011, 2012 has arguably been one of the best documented cases of rampant corruption ever published in any language.

In late March, a Spanish Prosecutor that had issued an international arrest warrant for Alejandro Betancourt in September last year decided that no further actions would be taken and dismissed the case.

Imagine the world's largest money laundering jurisdiction (Switzerland) issuing an arrest warrant for a money launderer. That is exactly what is happening to Alejandro Betancourt. The reason? His direct involvement in a scheme to loot $4+ billion out of PDVSA. He didn’t do it alone, of course. His associates from Derwick were there. Luis and Ignacio Oberto Anselmi "structured" the deal.