Published at: 14/11/2026 02:01 PM

The grandparents said that “there are many people who preach morality and don't know it”, a phrase that fits perfectly with the case at hand in this investigation.

When reviewing the recent past of representatives of the Venezuelan opposition, who are returning to the country and fleeing justice due to the criminal actions that preceded them, we find former deputy Vladimir Petit Medina, husband of journalist Nitu Pérez Osuna, formally accused of stealing a building from a Venezuelan family of Italian origin.

And unfortunately that is not his only crime, since according to the newspaper review consulted on the Venezuelan financial crisis of 1994, Vladimir Petit Medina admitted to having received money from former banker Orlando Castro Llanes, a member of the Latin American Progreso Group. This financial conglomerate owned Banco Progreso, Banco República and Latinoamericana de Seguros, institutions that collapsed during the same banking crisis that began with the intervention of Banco Latino that same year.

Then, in 1997, while serving as a deputy to the Congress of the Republic, Vladimir Petit Medina accepted having received financial contributions from Castro. The parliamentarian justified the resources by stating that “they were used to finance his political activities in the same way that other important Venezuelan and foreign politicians did.” The admission came in the midst of the scandal known as the Fugitive Bankers Case. At the same time, the deputy's father, Jesús Petit Da Costa, served as Attorney General of the Republic and participated in legal actions in the United States against Castro for crimes of fraud and theft.

During his trial in Florida in May 1996, Orlando Castro himself stated that he had provided financial contributions to other political figures. Among them, he mentioned a check for 20 million bolivars for Rafael Caldera's presidential campaign and contributions for the campaign of U.S. President Bill Clinton.

As if that weren't enough, the Petit Osuna family was dedicated to the scam, and one of the best-known cases was the theft of a building located on Francisco Solano López Avenue, near Sabana Grande in Caracas. Ángela Petrizzo, daughter of Mr. Michele Petrizzo, the deceased builder and owner of the building, has reported that once inside the Solano Tower as tenants, the Petit Osuna seized it without any title and, with legal traps, they have managed to keep the building for almost two decades. Faced with the landlord's impotence to demand payment of the royalties and the eviction of the building, his daughters maintain the demand for justice.

Ángela Petrizzo told the press how the scam began: “The one was delivered turnkey in full operation, with a lease agreement. When they had been using it for three months, they stopped paying my father's fees and began a trial against him, in order to try to appropriate that tower with judicial tricks. In conclusion, it was stolen. It's that simple.”

It would seem then that recent history is determined to link representatives of the Venezuelan right, who today appear to be politically persecuted; in criminal cases and dishonourable acts duly proven and known to the people who do not forget.

AMELYREN BASABE/Mazo News Team