Caracas (EFE) CVG), a state-owned company located in the south of the country.
“Yesterday, the Anti-Corruption Police moved to the Bolívar state (bordering Brazil) and detained part of the CVG leadership, and placed them before the courts,” said the deputy during the presentation of a bill that seeks the recovery of assets related to corruption.
Cabello did not specify the number of executives detained in the CVG – a conglomerate of public companies of mining, forestry and electrical resources – nor did he offer details about the identities or the positions held by those apprehended.
The Prosecutor’s Office indicated today that it will investigate the “serious facts” of corruption in the state company, one day after the Anti-Corruption Police requested the fiscal entity to prosecute a “group of officials” of this conglomerate.
So far, the authorities have confirmed the arrest of 27 people for recently discovered corruption schemes, made by those who are already behind bars a pro-government legislator, three judges, 11 businessmen, a mayor and a group of officials from the state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).
A “crusade” against corruption
The Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, leads this crusade against corruption that also led to the resignation of the Oil Minister, Tareck El Aissami, who left his position to collaborate with the investigations, without any known criminal proceedings against him. .
Consistent with this, Maduro this week suspended, by decree, a commission created in 2020 to restructure the oil industry, under the supervision of former minister El Aissami, who recently resigned his post to “support” a corruption investigation within the state PDVSA.
In the decree, published in the official gazette number 42,594, a resolution of April 27, 2022 that maintained the validity of this commission, called “Ali Rodríguez Araque”, is “repealed” and the new Minister of Petroleum, Pedro Tellechea, is ordered , assume the processes that this body executed.
“It will correspond to the Minister of People’s Power for Petroleum to ensure that the ongoing processes by the Presidential Commission for the Defense, Restructuring and Reorganization of the Ali Rodríguez Araque National Oil Industry are finalized, safeguarding the interests of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela” says the document.
