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November 2021
UPDATED 1/12/2021 - 14:20 GMT | UPDATED 2/12/2021 - 12:46 GMT - Further to the little incident last week in Madrid's airport, when Derwick Associates' main thug Alejandro Betancourt was confronted by a fellow Venezuelan and reminded that his future was like that of Alex Saab, we thought it'd be wise to revisit Betancourt's late
Video below has gone viral. The context is a London - Madrid commercial flight early this week, in which Derwick Associates' main thug Alejandro Betancourt was identified by a fellow Venezuelan passenger. Betancourt was courteously reminded in Barajas airport that his fate -as that of Alex Saab- is sealed. His body language and facial expressions weren’t that of a multi billionaire at top of his game.
Let us get into specifics: on 5th May 2016, Andorran Prosecutor Canòlic Mingorance sent a Letter Rogatory to Mireille Venet, Assistant to National Financial Prosecutor's Office in Paris.
Raul Gorrin refuted DoJ charges, by posting evidence of own corruption
Raul Gorrin must have lost it. It is kind of impossible to make sense of the following thread, posted by Gorrin in his Twitter account a few hours ago:
Guten Tag, the unroll you asked for: Quiero alertar que con pruebas falsas los EEUU pretenden, una vez más… https://t.co/1FRsDrhABm Talk to you soon. 🤖
Venezuelan corruption will taint USG: exhibit Monómeros
Journalist Patricia Poleo revealed yesterday that Monómeros -one of those assets that Juan Guaidó & co took over- paid $60,000 to Antonieta Mendoza de López -otherwise known as Leopoldo López's mother- for a "report" entitled "Discovering Guaidó: man of persistence"
Basil Shiblaq's Venezuela gold deal: decades in the making
In early February 2009, an email reached inbox of Felix Plasencia, Venezuela's current Minister of Foreign Affairs:
America's Justice has a problem: exhibit Venezuela
Justice isn't about fairness. It isn't a system where victims can exact revenge on their tormentors, and it is not the place where serious crime is punished in appropriate measure. There are many examples where America's Justice has settled with offenders, in exchange for something. The criteria by which that something is weighted at time of reducing, or altogether eliminating, jail time remains a mystery. There isn't a table, or a set series of parameters guiding actions of the judiciary when criminals decide to "cooperate".