The lawsuit was filed by two groups of investors, who accused the leadership of the bank by putting the “entity available to those wishing to launder money”.
The Spanish justice investigate seven directors of Banco Madrid for money laundering, said Tuesday the National Court.
lawsuit was filed by two groups of investors, who accused the leadership of the bank by putting the “entity available to those wishing to launder money”. In his order, Judge Fernando Andreu said that the facts could have caused numerous injuries, not only to depositors and investors, “but the entity itself and the national economy.”
Madrid was a subsidiary of Banco Banca Privada d’Andorra (BPA). US accused of laundering money for BPA customers in Venezuela, China and Russia. According to the US Treasury, BPA helped wash at least 2,000 million dollars from Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA.
Authorities in Andorra, a tiny country in the Pyrenees between Spain and France intervened Spanish BPA and did the same with Banco Madrid in March. Banco Madrid is currently in liquidation.
Representatives of the Venezuelan opposition recently traveled to Spain in search of evidence of the alleged laundering of $ 4,200 million committed by former senior government officials through Venezuela these two financial institutions.
The official investigation has not provided customer names so far, but press reports in Spain quoted some former senior government of Venezuela. Venezuelan authorities said they will investigate these allegations of corruption.
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