Three Venezuelan exviceministros a former head of intelligence, the exejecutivo of PDVSA oil and an upcoming entrepreneur the late President Hugo Chavez during his government, are investigated by managing funds in Spain you from allegedly millionaires bribes for awards scheme Venezuela, according to a report by the Spanish anti-money laundering unit, Sepblac, and held by the Commission on Prevention of Money Laundering, according to police sources.
According to information published in El Mundo, of Spain, five are in the ratio of clients in the Bank discovered Madrid, Spanish subsidiary of the Bank Privat d’Andorra (BPA), without the entity take the necessary measures to prevent launder money.
A report released Monday by the US anti-money laundering unit, FinCEN said that “BPA facilitated transfers amounting to 4,200 million related to money laundering Venezuelan dollars,” and although he gave no names, as does research in Spain yes said that it is “a network that BPA had to deposit proceeds of public corruption.”
According to police sources El Mundo, among clients of Banco Madrid are the Deputy Minister of Energy of Venezuela Nervis Gerardo Villalobos, in the past decade, and who attributed the Spanish research societies in Madeira and Virgin Islands. It is also considered close to Venezuela’s ambassador to the UN and President of the state oil company PDVSA, Rafael Ramirez.
The former ambassador of EE. UU. in Venezuela, Otto Reich, filed a complaint in 2013 that involved, among others, to Villalobos, for intermediating in bribes for the group Derwick energy projects awarded in 2009 in Venezuela. Villalobos denied, ensuring that now dedicated to consulting.
According to research, Villalobos has received “consultancy payments” from the Spanish company Duro Felguera, which was awarded in May 2009 a contract of 1,500 million euros in Venezuela, and managed to be prime contractor to build the combined cycle with which energy is supplied to Caracas. The president of the company that handled the award, Electricidad de Caracas, and Deputy Minister of Electricity Development was Javier Alvarado Ochoa, who also appears among clients of Banco Madrid.
Another client is Carlos Luis Aguilera Borjas, former director Security of the regime, who runs the company in Spain CLAB-Consulting Real Estate and is also one of the major shareholders and directors of Construction Girardot 53, a graceful companies at the end of the last decade with works on the Metro de Caracas.
Bank Customers Madrid
Among the investigated is confident businessman Omar Farias, who manages Inversiones Porbónica, and appears in investigations of Sepblac as a key figure with potential accounts Bank B in Madrid relating to possible shady dealings of the regime abroad.
This entity blocked operation 13 million by Farias, but not investigated. Then there are the exviceministro Alcides Rondon and Francisco Rafael Jiménez Villarroel, former leader of PDVSA when it was chaired by Rafael Ramirez.
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