Caracas, October 26 (RHC)-- The vice president of the National Assembly (parliament) of Venezuela, Pedro Infante, delivered this Thursday to the attorney general Tarek William Saab, the final report of the investigation into what is considered the largest theft in the republican history of the country.
The documentation was made in a formal act at the headquarters of the Public Ministry and includes, in addition to the file prepared by the special parliamentary commission, a dossier with 19 texts proving the embezzlement of the Citgo company by the Parliament in contempt (2016-2021).
Infante explained that this file includes minutes of that Assembly, approved agreements and illegally appointed Ad Hoc boards whose main objective was to seize Venezuelan companies and assets abroad, including the most important one: Citgo Petroleum Corporation (Citgo).
He also provided a copy of the minutes of the session of February 5, 2019, in which “the monstrosity of a statute for the transition to democracy” was approved, and in which the names of the deputies who approved this minutes appear.
All documents demonstrate the involvement of these actors in the “biggest robbery in the history of Venezuela,” he stressed.
Saab, for his part, commented that since 2017 the Prosecutor's Office has carried out important investigations in relation to “this shameful case,” which he considered one of the worst corruption schemes known in Republican history.
He added that those who committed these very serious crimes "had no prior qualification of any popular office, but were handpicked via Twitter, from abroad under the administration of Donald Trump (2017-2021) to exercise de facto a government that sought to plunder and destabilize the country.
The attorney general highlighted that this report prepared by the special commission of Parliament includes evidence from deputies of the aforementioned legislature, from designated members of its Ad Hoc board of directors, from Pdvsa Holding and Citgo.
It also contains the list of the 15 political parties that were complicit in the theft and from Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), which received funding from the Simón Bolívar Foundation of Citgo, whose board was invalid and outside the law.
The head of state considered the investigation carried out by the special parliamentary commission to be valuable and serious and announced the appointment of the national prosecutors with full jurisdiction 50 and 67 to carry out the investigations and determine the individual responsibilities contemplated in the law.
Infante presented last Tuesday to the National Assembly the conclusive results of the aforementioned investigation that determined the involvement of 351 people, who acted with the support of NGOs, political parties and their boards of directors.
Among the latter are Acción Democrática, Voluntad Popular, Primero Justicia, Vente Venezuela, Un Nuevo Tiempo and Mesa de la Unidad Democrática.
[ SOURCE: teleSUR ]
