New subjects linked to corruption in Venezuela taken to courts

Havana, April 14 (RHC) - Seven new subjects linked to the PDVSA-Crypto corruption scheme were presented today before the second control court, revealed the attorney general, Tarek William Saab.

Venezolana de Televisión reported on Twitter, without confirmation by official sources, that among the people presented are Harold Sosa, director of Municipal Engineering of the Mayor's Office of Baruta; Pedro Herrera, financial operator and brother-in-law of former deputy Hugbel Roa, imprisoned for these events. There are also Juan Almeida and Jorge Almeida, technological operators of the Cripto-PDVSA plot.

In a recent balance offered, William Saab detailed that a total of 58 people were detained for their involvement in five corruption schemes.

The attorney general updated the data of the operations carried out by the security organizations in which they also carried out 161 raids and pointed out that 18 arrest warrants were missing to be executed.

He explained that in the PDVSA-Cripto operation (Petróleos de Venezuela state company and National Superintendency of Cryptoactives and related activities), 53 arrest warrants and 99 raids were issued nationwide.

In the plot discovered in the Venezuelan Corporation of Guayana, the request for arrests amounted to 13 people and 48 records throughout the country, while in Cartones de Venezuela there were three and seven, respectively.

The investigations also reached the Judiciary, where the Prosecutor's Office ordered the arrest of six people and the same number of raids, and the mayor's office of Las Tejerías, whose mayor was arrested.

Since the announcement on February 17 by the National Anti-Corruption Police of the beginning of the process of the "Caiga-quien-Caiga" operation, senior officials, executives, businessmen, a deputy and judges have been arrested and prosecuted.

Those arrested were accused of appropriation or diversion of public assets, money laundering and association, influence peddling, among other crimes, in addition to the fact that the officials will be charged with treason.

President Nicolás Maduro assured that he would carry this process through to the end to end the mafias entrenched in the State administration, the Judiciary and in the business sector. (Source: Prensa Latina)