Alleged laundering involving former officials of Chavez – The Universe

Four exaltos government officials of late president Hugo Chavez and two Venezuelan businessmen are allegedly involved in a case of money laundering in Spain, according to a report by the Spanish anti-money laundering unit (Sepblac) which was seen by the newspaper El Mundo.

The Spanish newspaper reported yesterday that these people are on the Bank’s customer relationship Madrid, Spanish subsidiary of Private Banking Andorra (BPA), taken on 10 March by the Andorran Institute of Finance ( INAF), the financial regulator Andorra. The Madrid Bank was taken over by the Bank of Spain hours later.

The report submitted by the Sepblac, the company announced that Banco Madrid failed to take the necessary measures to prevent money laundering.

Among the investigated are the exviceministro Energy Nervis Gerardo Villalobos; military Alcides Rondon (who held key security posts with Chavez), the exviceministro Development, Javier Alvarado; the head of the intelligence Carlos Aguilera and entrepreneurs Rafael Jimenez and Omar Farias.

According to El Mundo, these six people “were able to manage funds in Spain you from allegedly millionaires bribes for awards Venezuelan regime. ” The newspaper adds that the report of Sepblac goes beyond the information released a few days ago by the US anti-money laundering unit (FinCEN) who said, without naming names, that “BPA facilitated transfers amounting to 4,200 million dollars related laundering Venezuelan capital “.

The Andorran financial supervisor intervened BPA after disclosure of US FinCEN, pointing to the entity for an alleged crime of money laundering from organized crime.

The Treasury Department of the United States accused some directors of BPA to collaborate on money laundering Chinese customers, Russians, Mexicans and Venezuelans. (I)

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