The colonel's bribe
In the basic companies located in Guayana, south Venezuela, iron was even sold at cost price. Now that Ferrominera is a scandal, reports, claims, and agreements for amounts fourfold lower than the market value are sprouting.
Direct-reduced iron -from the steel works of Guayana- was dispatched in 2011 at USD 15 per ton. A bargain for SW-Chartering Inc. This was not the case for some other companies which were requested by Ferrominera USD 59 to invoice, ship, and carry each ton of the same product.
That and some other grievances would build up in a military intelligence docket in charge of Colonel Juan Carlos Álvarez Dionisi. Ironically, the military man awaits trial in a cell of the Military Counterintelligence Director General Office, where he led a special inquest into public servants and businesspersons who ended up charging him with extortion.
Álvarez Dionisi's colleagues call him "The Shark." Even though he was like a fish swimming in a stream in government intelligence bodies, he ended up like a biter bit. He had investigated for quite a while what he termed "The iron mafia." Eventually, a file was opened on him for extortion in the same report he listed a number of companies that took the iron from Guayana at exceptional prices and conditions.
According to paper 47C-16156-13, on file in the 47th Control Court of Caracas Metropolitan Area, Colonel Álvarez Dionisi queried into a number of wrongdoings that entail property damages for Guayana's basic companies for at least USD 1.11 billion.
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http://www.eluniversal.com/nacional-y-politica/130727/the-colonels-bribe
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It wouldn't surprise me to find out that El (not) Universal is engaging in lucrative slander. Their smug attitude in this article points to falseness.
Is Álvarez Dionisi a Leftist? Is he pro-union? Is he just an honest prosecutor? Is he being targeted by "the Iron mafia" with this corporate news monopoly helping them out? Do the media moguls have an interest in Guayana steel?
Or is he, in truth, a dirty prosecutor--a greedbag?
All up in the air, as far as I'm concerned. I don't trust El Universal AT ALL.
I'm reminded of Chevron's claim that the Indigenous lawsuit against them, in Ecuador, for their having despoiled a portion of the Ecuadoran rainforest the size of Rhode Island, with toxic oil waste, is "extortion" by the Indigenous. It is rather the classic cry of the very rich against the poor, when the poor stand up for themselves (for instance, labor unions "extorting" higher wages from the uber-rich). Heard it all before. Is it true in this case--the bad guys, making money hand over fist, screaming "extortion" when a prosecutor tries to curtail them in the public interest?
And who are these "colleagues" of Álvarez Dionisi's who call him "The Shark"? (Sharks clean up the detritus in the ocean. A good prosecutor needs to be a shark.) This corporate 'news' writing is a bit too colorful. ("Even though he was like a fish swimming in a stream in government intelligence bodies, he ended up like a biter bit."
(Huh?)
More info needed. More objective, disinterested info needed.
