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Spain's anti corruption prosecutors Juan José Rosa Álvarez and José Grinda González presented criminal charges on July 4th against Nervis Villalobos and wife Milagros Torres, Javier Alvarado and wife Maria Consuelo Pardi and lover Cecirée Carolina Casanova, Luis Jesús Barrios Melean, Luis Carlos de León and wife Andreina Gámez Rodríguez, Julia Elba Van Den Brule, and Duro Felguera's executives Ángel Antonio del Valle Suárez and Juan Carlos Torres Inclán.
Gotham City reported this week: "Saint Barth: le PNF bloque la vente suspecte d'une villa à 28 millions: Une récente décision de justice révèle que l'oligarque russe Kirill Pisarev a tenté de racheter une propriété à Saint-Barthélemy évaluée à 28 millions d'euros à l'homme d'affaires vénézuélien Luis Oberto. Or tous deux sont visés par des enquêtes séparées du Parquet national financier.
Gotham City reported yesterday "Affaire PDVSA: le ministère public rend 80 millions de dollars aux prévenus". In news that will surprise not a single person, Switzerland's Federal Tribunal decided to ignore evidence at hand and give back to Francisco Morillo $80 million that had been seized from personal and company accounts during a penal process that, while allegedly started by PDVSA, never got real traction within Nicolas Maduro's regime.
In the context of a bribes payment criminal probe by the U.S. Department of Justice involving Brazil's Petrobras Trafigura admitted guilt, dusting off its deceased founder and former CEO Claude Dauphin.
FinCEN, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the U.S. Treasury, "In the matter of Bancrédito International Bank and Trust Corporation" included the following description: "Customer A, an associate of Executive A, was a Venezuelan national with residences in Venezuela, and Miami, Florida. Customer A opened a personal banking account at Bancrédito in March 2014.
Allegedly, in the different rounds of "secret" negotiations between Jorge Rodriguez and Special Assistant to President Biden and National Security Council Senior Director for the Western Hemisphere Juan Gonzalez, free and fair elections was one of the main points. The topic of elections has also been central to talks between Nicolas Maduro's regime and the opposition with the participation of the U.S. State Department. Since 1999, there has been countless agreements and pacts that chavismo has entered and breached. That has been a constant.
On April 20, 2022 Portugal's Public Prosecution investigating Banco Espirito Santo's (BES) corruption sent an MLAT to Switzerland. Bribe payments, money laundering, forging of documents and criminal association are the accusations put forth by the prosecution.
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