MP processes new arrest and extradition warrants against López and Borges in the PDVSA-Cripto case
Published at: 02/05/2024 01:00 PM
The Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, announced that in his statements, Samark López, he revealed that fugitives from justice Leopoldo López and Julio Borges have directly benefited from illegal allocations of crude oil shipments.
During a press conference, from the headquarters of the Public
Ministry (MP) in Caracas, the Prosecutor explained that through two star
contractors, “one of whom had been doing business with PDVSA
since the time of Rafael Ramírez, they granted shipments of crude oil for the benefit of Leopoldo López and Julio Borges.”
“These shipments, Samark López says, are valued at
more than 1 billion dollars. This is disgusting behavior. With what
morals are they going to talk about oil corruption now? Primero Justicia (PJ) was born with
funds stolen from PDVSA, these surnames come from the time of the Fourth Republic
benefiting,” said the Prosecutor.
In that sense, he assured that they have no morals to talk about
corruption because they are part of it. “What will they say to the opposition bases? That
they were sent to the streets while they were very comfortable or in golden exile.”
“How are they going to fill their mouths talking about Ramírez's corruption
when they were beneficiaries of outsourced contracts. The two modalities
used were the assignment of oil shipments and there was a second
modality, where these contractors were required, instead of paying the
price of crude oil, to send fuel or diluent, to be mixed and produce
oil in Venezuela,” said the Prosecutor.
He also argued that the minimum shipments were 2 million barrels per ship; with an approximate value between 120 and 140 million dollars, depending on their market price. “The contractors also had a double profit; because they earned from the sale of oil and they also earned from the sale of the supply of the input they were sending to the Republic. What a barbarity!”
In the first phase of the PDVSA-Cripto plot,
54 people were arrested, to which 13 were added in this second phase, for a total of 67.
Mazo News Team