CARACAS: An expanding anti-corruption probe in Venezuela has led to the detention of 10 officials and 11 businessmen, the country's attorney general said on Saturday (Mar 25), adding that arrest warrants for 11 more people have been issued. The investigation, which began in October, is focused on state oil
CARACAS: An expanding anti-corruption probe in Venezuela has led to the detention of 10 officials and 11 businessmen, the country's attorney general said on Saturday , adding that arrest warrants for 11 more people have been issued.
"We are talking about one of the most lurid plots in recent years, which involves officials, businessmen who benefited from corruption and young people - including the so-called mafia women - who participated in corruption and money laundering," Attorney General Tarek Saab told journalists in a press conference.
PDVSA has accumulated US$21.2 billion in commercial accounts receivable since 2020 including US$3.6 billion potentially unrecoverable, documents viewed by Reuters showed this week, after turning to dozens of little known intermediaries to export its oil under US sanctions.
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