Ortega has received 12 million dollars through the scheme of embezzlement of PDVSA, built around a system of control over the country’s currency, which for many years allowed the state officials who have contact with the public, to buy subsidized dollars and resell them with huge profit.<\/p>\n

More than a dozen people have pleaded guilty to an investigation by the broad justice Department into bribery in the PDVSA, which went public in 2015 with the arrest of U.S. contractors Roberto Rincon and Abraham Schier.<\/p>\n

The government of President Nicolas Maduro called the us investigation politically motivated and accuses Washington of trying to undermine his government through financial sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The former financial Executive Director of the Venezuelan oil company PDVSA admitted to the us court that he was involved in a corruption scheme and received bribes for granting priority status to borrowings of the Russian Bank and the French company. “Ortega admitted that he and the co-defendant cooperated in laundering the $ 12 million […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[260,1337],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.12.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ru","en"],"languages":{"ru":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"yoast_head":"\n