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The start of the investigation into Venezuelan corruption started with a tip of 100,000 Euro
A tip in euros in Paris, germ of PDVSA's researchNovember 27 2018, 11:54 a.m.
translated from Spanish
A "tip for services rendered" of 99,980 euros to a hotel worker in Paris was the beginning in 2010 of the investigation in Andorra of the "Salazar group", a group of Venezuelans related to former Minister of Energy Rafael Ramírez investigated by he plundered the oil company PDVSA.
Venezuelan justice details the germ of Andorran research in extradition requests, to which Efe has had access, of some of these investigated, such as the former energy minister Nervis Villalobos and Luis Mariano Rodríguez Cabello.
Both are in Spain pending the resolution of the delivery requests to the South American country.
Another one of those investigated in Spain is José Ramón Sánchez Rodríguez, formerly of Petróleos de Venezuela ( PDVSA ), whose extradition the National Court rejected today for fear that he will be subjected to degrading treatment in Venezuela.
This country accuses the "Salazar group" of diverting billions of euros from the state oil company when it was chaired by Ramírez (from 2004 to 2014), who was Venezuela's representative to the UN. He went into exile, is now unaccounted for and reported being a victim of political persecution by the government of President Nicolás Maduro.
The lawyer Ismael Oliver, defender of Rodriguez Cabello and Sánchez Rodríguez, points out that the request for extradition by Caracas is based, above all, on the documents that Andorra sent in 2010 in a request for information and in reports from the small European country who have never been in possession of Venezuelan justice.
All this supposes that "one traffics with the confusion", says the lawyer.
Venezuelan justice details the germ of Andorran research in extradition requests, to which Efe has had access, of some of these investigated, such as the former energy minister Nervis Villalobos and Luis Mariano Rodríguez Cabello.
Both are in Spain pending the resolution of the delivery requests to the South American country.
Another one of those investigated in Spain is José Ramón Sánchez Rodríguez, formerly of Petróleos de Venezuela ( PDVSA ), whose extradition the National Court rejected today for fear that he will be subjected to degrading treatment in Venezuela.
This country accuses the "Salazar group" of diverting billions of euros from the state oil company when it was chaired by Ramírez (from 2004 to 2014), who was Venezuela's representative to the UN. He went into exile, is now unaccounted for and reported being a victim of political persecution by the government of President Nicolás Maduro.
The lawyer Ismael Oliver, defender of Rodriguez Cabello and Sánchez Rodríguez, points out that the request for extradition by Caracas is based, above all, on the documents that Andorra sent in 2010 in a request for information and in reports from the small European country who have never been in possession of Venezuelan justice.
All this supposes that "one traffics with the confusion", says the lawyer.
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https://www.lapatilla.com/2018/11/27/una-propina-en-euros-en-paris-germen-de-la-investigacion-de-pdvsa/
Rafael Ramírez is an unrepentant Chavist. He only regrets not being able to continue on with his plunder. Not that he is alone. It is estimated that over a trillion dollars has been pilfered from Venezuelan coffers vy Chavists since Hugo Chavez was elected in 1999. (Chavez daughter, Maria Gabriella is worth an estimated $4.2 billion.)
Maria Gabriela hobnobbing with Fidel Castro... another "man of the people".
