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Venezuela Arrests 2 Former Oil Officials, Claiming Corruption<\/h3>\n
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CARACAS, Venezuela \u2014 Masked government agents stormed the homes of two former top officials of Venezuela\u2019s state oil company and arrested them on Thursday, a move that the prosecutor heralded as a blow against corruption but that others saw as a political purge to strengthen the country\u2019s president.<\/p>\n

The accused men, Nelson Mart\u00ednez<\/a> and Eulogio del Pino<\/a>, are the highest-level officials detained in a string of arrests that have shaken the country\u2019s troubled oil giant, Petr\u00f3leos de Venezuela<\/a>, and its United States refiner, Citgo<\/a>.\u00a0More than 50 people so far<\/a>\u00a0have been detained in a widening net of charges from corruption to sabotage.<\/p>\n

Mr. Mart\u00ednez, a former oil minister who led the oil company until this week, was detained early Thursday and charged with seeking debt refinancing contracts without getting government approval, said Tarek William Saab<\/a>, the Venezuelan attorney general.<\/p>\n

Mr. Del Pino, Mr. Mart\u00ednez\u2019s predecessor, was arrested on a list of charges that included falsifying production figures and sabotage that resulted in millions of dollars in lost revenues, Mr. Saab said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Saab described the two men as running \u201ca cartel\u201d that he said \u201cbit by bit was delivering blows to the oil industry and causing national damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In a video posted on Mr. Del Pino\u2019s Twitter account<\/a> and apparently recorded before his arrest, he said he had been the victim of an unjustified attack.<\/p>\n

Corruption at Venezuela\u2019s state oil company has never been a secret, analysts say. What has changed, many argue, are the fortunes of President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a>, who is seeking to remain in power despite two years of food and medicine shortages and a looming, potentially catastrophic,\u00a0default on its foreign debt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy the focus on this so suddenly?\u201d said David Smilde<\/a>, a political-science professor who studies Venezuela at Tulane University<\/a>. \u201cThere\u2019s a need to find a scapegoat for the country\u2019s economic crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Eulogio del Pino, center, a former Venezuelan oil minister, at a meeting in Algeria in 2016. He was arrested on Thursday. Source: Sidali Djarboub\/Associated Press.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Venezuelan government is almost entirely dependent on oil revenues for income, and years of price declines combined with a production collapse at the company has taken a heavy toll.<\/p>\n

Now Petr\u00f3leos de Venezuela<\/a>, known as Pdvsa<\/a>, is effectively in default on its $26.5 billion in unsecured bonds, and it faces claims of $60 billion in missed payments from contractors and service companies that drill and maintain its fields. Sanctions by the Trump<\/a> administration are blocking the flow of money to Pdvsa. A disorderly default could prompt bondholders to seize the assets of Citgo.<\/p>\n

Amid the turmoil, Mr. Maduro appointed Manuel Quevedo<\/a>, a military general, to lead Pdvsa this week. But far from setting the stage for a turnaround for the company,\u00a0skeptics said<\/a>, the move may deepen the company\u2019s woes as it cements the allegiance of the armed forces to Mr. Maduro, allowing the military to profit from Pdvsa\u2019s petrodollars.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaduro is focused on the challenges of survival,\u201d said Francisco J. Monaldi<\/a>, a Venezuelan energy expert at Rice University<\/a>. \u201cThis is not a move you make to calm the international markets that Pdvsa will need to reverse the collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some said the arrest of Mr. Del Pino in particular seemed to be motivated by politics.<\/p>\n

Mr. Del Pino, like many of the Pdvsa officials arrested recently, was close to Rafael Ram\u00edrez<\/a>, another former top official of the oil company, who has publicly criticized Mr. Maduro this year from his post as Venezuela\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday,\u00a0Reuters reported<\/a>\u00a0that Mr. Ram\u00edrez had been stripped of his post. The government did not confirm the ambassador\u2019s status.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaduro wants to send a message that there\u2019s no room for political debate,\u201d Mr. Smilde said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Monaldi said that while the company had not been transparent during the tenures of Mr. Del Pino or Mr. Mart\u00ednez, transgressions such as filing inflated production figures were most likely ordered by the government itself to improve its balance sheet.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s largely a political vendetta,\u201d he said of the charges.<\/p>\n

It was certainly a change of fortunes for the two men, whom Mr. Maduro praised on television in August when he named them to their positions. \u201cTwo cleanup hitters ready for the battle,\u201d Mr. Maduro said, using a baseball reference.<\/p>\n

Mr. Del Pino smiled and Mr. Mart\u00ednez clapped.<\/p>\n

Venezuela arrests top oil officials in corruption probe<\/h3>\n
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CARACAS, Venezuela \u2014 Venezuelan authorities on Thursday arrested two former top officials in a widening corruption probe into the state-run oil industry that some see as an attempt by President Nicolas Maduro to consolidate power within his socialist party ahead of next year\u2019s presidential elections.<\/p>\n

Former Oil Minister Eulogio del Pino and Nestor Martinez, ex-president of state oil company PDVSA, were arrested just four days after being removed by Maduro in a surprise cabinet shake-up. Both are accused of embezzling state funds, conspiracy and money laundering among other charges, Tarek William Saab, who took over as chief prosecutor following the ousting of one of Maduro\u2019s top critics, said at a press conference in Caracas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As Saab was speaking, footage of the arrests was broadcast on state TV. In one sequence, military intelligence agents wearing ski masks with assault rifles drawn knock on the residence of Del Pino, who calmly opens the door and consents to being handcuffed while dressed in a jersey of Venezuela\u2019s national soccer team<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a pre-recorded video released on social media after his arrest, Del Pino said he was the victim of an unjustified attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope this revolution gives me the right to a legitimate defense,\u201d he said in the outdoor recording as birds chirped in the background.<\/p>\n

Saab said the arrests fulfill a government pledge to assure Venezuela\u2019s vast oil wealth is spent on the poor and isn\u2019t pilfered by corrupt officials with mansions and yachts in the U.S. While corruption in the country sitting atop the world\u2019s largest oil reserves has long been rampant, officials are rarely held accountable \u2014 a major irritant to Venezuelans now struggling to eat three meals a day amid widespread shortages and triple-digit inflation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis shouldn\u2019t be seen as an isolated act,\u201d said Saab, adding that 15 other PDVSA managers and officials tied to the oil probe had been arrested in the past 24 hours and a total of 65 since August. They include six executives of PDVSA\u2019s Houston-based subsidiary Citgo, five of whom hold American passports.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re doing will boost the people\u2019s morale,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Del Pino and Martinez, both U.S.-educated industry veterans, were replaced Sunday by a high-ranking general with no experience in an oil industry that\u2019s the source of virtually all of Venezuela\u2019s foreign currency earnings.<\/p>\n

Specifically, Saab accused Martinez of acting improperly and against Venezuela\u2019s national interests by negotiating a debt-financing deal when he headed PDVSA subsidiary Citgo that offered part ownership of the Houston-based company subsidiary as collateral.<\/p>\n

Del Pino allegedly profited from and helped doctor production figures in a joint Russian-Venezuelan oil field. Saab said the alleged scam deprived the Venezuelan state of more than $500 million in revenue between 2015 and 2017.<\/p>\n

Both men are also proteges of former oil czar Rafael Ramirez, who headed PDVSA and served as oil minister for a decade until becoming Venezuela\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations in 2014.<\/p>\n

In a rare display of divisions in the ruling socialist party<\/a>, Ramirez has increasingly spoken out against Maduro\u2019s handling of the economy, even while staring down public attacks from prominent government loyalists. On Wednesday, he was reportedly fired from his U.N. post, although nobody in the government has confirmed his dismissal.<\/p>\n

The mission\u2019s office said he could not be reached for comment and the U.N. said Thursday it hadn\u2019t been notified of any change in Venezuela\u2019s representation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m disappointed that no type of constructive criticism is allowed, and also the fact that some comrades who know me well are victims of the right-wing\u2019s manipulations,\u201d he wrote in an essay titled \u201cStepping Firmly: Is it ethical to remain silent?\u201d published Sunday on the Aporrea<\/a> website, a forum for Venezuelan leftists.<\/p>\n

Ramirez, who was close to the late Hugo Chavez<\/a> but never part of his successor\u2019s inner circle, is believed to be the ultimate target of the PDVSA housecleaning as well as an ongoing probe in the U.S. that has led to the arrest of more than 10 individuals for paying bribes and kickbacks, including two former close aides to Ramirez arrested last month in Spain.<\/p>\n

Maduro\u2019s anti-corruption crackdown may provide him with a needed boost and silence internal criticism ahead of presidential elections, said David Smilde, a Tulane University sociologist.<\/p>\n

Vice President Tareck El Aissami<\/a> said on Wednesday that he hoped that Maduro will be re-elected in 2018, the clearest sign yet that the former bus driver will seek another term despite the deepening economic crisis.<\/p>\n

Speculation has been rising that Maduro may call elections for as early as March to take advantage of disarray within the opposition, which has been struggling to come up with a strategy to confront the president\u2019s increasingly authoritarian rule.<\/p>\n

\u201cRamirez was a dissenting voice and that\u2019s not something Maduro wants in 2018,\u201d said Smilde, who has lived on and off in Venezuela for more than two decades. \u201cWhen you purge these once very powerful folks at PDVSA, you\u2019re sending a strong message that you want everyone on board and that this isn\u2019t the time for reflection and debate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, Smilde said it\u2019s a high-risk strategy for Maduro, who is under increasing international pressure as well as U.S. financial sanctions. Should Ramirez decide to turn to U.S. authorities for protection, as many expect, he could likely provide incriminating testimony on corruption at the highest levels of the system.<\/p>\n

\u201cRamirez has compromising information too,\u201d said Smilde. \u201cThat\u2019s what has protected him until now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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